Postdevelopmental Approaches to Digital Arts in Childhood

Marissa McClure Sweeny, Mona Sakr

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350405103
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Early Childhood Education

This book deconstructs traditional developmentalist logic around children's engagement with digital media where the focus is on what the digital 'does to' children's bodies and brains. Rather than seeing children as vulnerable and passive recipients, the authors position children as co-creators and digital artists, embracing the richness of children's digital play.

The chapters cover a wide range of topics including indigenous digital art, digital drawing, learning to code, social media and artificial intelligence. The authors use a diverse range of theoretical perspectives, including posthumanism, feminist new materialism, social semiotics, socialcultural and multimodal approaches to childhood to generate new ways of seeing the relationship between children and the digital. The book includes chapters from academics and practitioners based in Australia, Canada, Sweden, the UK and the USA and a companion website showcasing innovative and interactive material, including visual essays and soundscapes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Series Editor’s Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 How Participatory Art Offers Children Postdevelopmental, Experimental Forays into Coding: You/Me/Us: AI
• 2 Shaping and Writing by Hand: On Situated Uses and Semiotic Potentials of Digital Pencils in a Swedish Fourth-Grade Class
• 3 Trans-spatial, Trans-media Flows: Family Ethnographies of Children’s Creative Exploration of Identities In and Out of Digital Space(s)
• 4 Ethnocomputation and Afrofuturism in Theory and Practice
• 5 Wrestling the Tentacular: Compost and Contamination Making Children, Clay and Video
• 6 Queer Songbook Orchestra’s Childhood
• 7 Thinking Collaboratively in the Virtual Space: Middle School Students’ Sympoietic 3D Art
• 8 Youtubing without an Internet Connection: Young Children Documenting Representing and Presenting Their Selves through Video-making
• 9 Reframing Learning to Code
• 10 Teen’s Creative Experiences in TikTok as an Infra-Structure of Feeling
• Index
• Copyright