Routledge Handbook of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood

Ola Erstad is Professor and Head of the Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway.Rosie Flewitt is Reader in Early Communication and Literacy, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK.Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany.Íris Susana Pires Pereira is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho, Portugal.

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• Introduction: The Emerging Field of Digital Literacies in Early ChildhoodOla Erstad, Rosie Flewitt, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Íris Susana Pires PereiraPart I Perspectives on Digital Literacies in Early Childhood1 Researching the Digital Literacy and Multimodal Practices of Young Children: A European Agenda for ChangeJackie Marsh2 Theorizing Digital Literacy Practices in Early ChildhoodOla Erstad and Julia Gillen 3 Researching Digital Literacy Practices in Early Childhood: Challenges, Complexities and Imperatives David Poveda4 Ethics and Researching Young Children’s Digital Literacy PracticesRosie Flewitt5 Comparative Global Knowledge about the Use of Digital Technologies for Learning among Young ChildrenSonia Livingstone, Sun Sun Lim, Anulekha Nandi and Becky PhamPart II Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices in Homes, Communities and Informal Learning Spaces 6 Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices in Homes: Past, Present and Future Research DirectionsKristiina Kumpulainen and Julia Gillen7 Reconceptualizing the Home of Digital Childhood Marta Morgade, Cristina Aliagas and David Poveda8 Older Siblings as Mediators of Infants’ and Toddlers’ (Digital) Media Use Andra Siibak and Elyna Nevski9 Safety Issues in Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices at HomeStéphane Chaudron, Rosanna Di Gioia and Monica Gemo10 Children’s Divergent Practices and Access to Digital Media in Home, School and Neighbourhood CommunitiesMastin Prinsloo11 "You know what’s glitching?": Emergent Digital Literacies in Video Game PlayEdward Rivero and Kris D. Gutiérrez Part III Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices in Early Education Settings 12 Digital and Media Literacy-related Policies and Teachers’ AttitudesChristine W. Trültzsch-Wijnen, Sascha Trültzsch-Wijnen and Kjartan Ólafsson13 Pedagogical Approaches to Digital Literacy in Early Years EducationStavroula Kontovourki and Eufimia Tafa14 Inclusivity and Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices in Early EducationGrace Oakley15 Young Children’s Digital Play in Early Childhood Settings: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Teachers’ KnowledgeElizabeth Wood, Joce Nuttall, Susan Edwards and Sue Grieshaber 16 Remixing Emergent Literacy Education: Cross-age, Plurilingual, Multimedia Adventures in Narrative Teaching and Learning Heather Lotherington17 Posthuman Theory as a Tool to Explore Literacy Desirings: Sara-Taylor-iPad-Book Becoming in Writers’ StudioCandace R. Kuby and Tara Gutshall RuckerPart IV Reading and Writing on Screen18 Young Children’s Writing in the 21st Century: The Challenge of Moving from Paper to ScreenClare Dowdall19 Digital Reading in the Early Years: Expertise, Engagement and LearningÍris Susana Pires Pereira, Cristina Vieira da Silva, Mônica Daisy Vieira de Araújo and Maria Manuel Borges20 Children’s Reading in the Digital Age: A Research Summary on Children’s Digital BooksNatalia Kucirkova21 The Role of Moving Images in Young Children’s Literacy PracticesMargaret Mackey22 Availability and Quality of Storybook Apps Across Five Less Widely Used LanguagesAdriana G. Bus, Trude Hoel, Cristina Aliagas Marin, Margrethe Jernes, Ofra Korat, Charles L. Mifsud and Jan van ColliePart V Negotiating Digital Literacy Lives in Hybrid Virtual and Physical Spaces23 Young Children’s e-books as Digital Spaces for Multimodal Composing, Translanguaging, and Intercultural SharingMary E. Miller and Deborah Wells Rowe24 Virtual Play: Developing a Baroque Sensibility Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant25 The Quantified Child: Discourses and Practices of Dataveillance in Different Life StagesGiovanna Mascheroni and Donell Holloway 26 Minecraft ‘Worldness’ in Family Life: Children’s Digital Play and Socio-material Literacy Practices Michael Dezuanni27 Digital Literacy Practices in Children’s Everyday Life. Participating in On-screen and Off-screen ActivitiesPål Aarsand and Helen Melander Bowden28 P(l)aying Online: Toys, Apps, and Young Consumers on Transmedia PlaygroundsKaren E. Wohlwend29 Webs of Relationships: Young Children’s Engagement with Web Searching Susan Danby and Christina DavidsonPart VI Emergent Themes and Future Visions30 Future Pedagogical Approaches to Digital and Multimodal Practice in Early Childhood EducationAnne Jyrkiäinen, Kirsi-Liisa Koskinen-Sinisalo, Pirjo Kulju, Reijo Kupiainen, Marita Mäkinen, and Angela Wiseman 31 Emergent Challenges for the Understanding of Children’s Digital Literature Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer32 Researching Children’s Play and Identity in the Digital Age: A Holistic ApproachBecky Parry and Fiona Scott33 Taking a Wide-Angled View of Contemporary Digital LiteracyAmélie Lemieux and Jennifer RowsellIndex