We would like to warmly thank @vikkikatz.bsky.social as she concludes her time as editor of JOCAM. Thank you, Vikki, for your care and commitment to the journal; we are so grateful for your dedication to the community and efforts to make JOCAM more representative of the field's diverse scholarship.

Honored and stoked to be awarded the best dissertation award from the Children, Adolescents, and Media (CAM) division of @icahdq.bsky.social ! 🎉

We congratulate this year's CAM Division award winners at #ICA25! Don't miss their sessions showcasing outstanding CAM scholarship:

> Top Student lead Paper (first authored by):
Weiqi Tian

> Top Faculty Papers (first authored by):

Darian Harff

Jane Shawcraft

> Top Dissertation: Luca Carbone

This year, the CAM division is pleased to contribute to #ICA25 with no less than 14 density sessions featuring 84 papers, 1 research escalator session, and 1 poster session.

Join CAM scholars for the Business Meeting today at 4:30 PM (local time), followed by the Division Reception at 6 PM!

We are looking forward to five days of exciting new CAM research, division meetings, and inspiration at #ICA25. See you in Denver! @icahdq.bsky.social

📢 Call for Papers

The journal Psychology of Popular Media is inviting submissions for an upcoming #SpecialIssue on "New Media and Body Image" that may be of particular interest to CAM scholars.

Full details and submission guidelines: www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

The first study of my PhD has been published in @journalcam.bsky.social! 🎉 Together with @baldwinvangorp.bsky.social and @michaelopgenhaffen.bsky.social, we studied what factors in news elicit fear in children and how they perceive and experience the mediation of news by adults. Read it here!

The latest issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television focusing on “UK Broadcasting and Media for Children: Past, Present and Looking to the Future”, features work that may be of interest to JoCAM readers.

More info here: doi.org/10.3366/jbct...

We’re excited to welcome Anaëlle Gonzalez @gonzalezanaelle.bsky.social to the team as our new Social Media Editor!

She’s the talent behind the great content you’ve seen recently, and we’re looking forward to what’s ahead.

Welcome, Anaëlle!

🎉 Happy to share my first PhD paper, published in @journalcam.bsky.social!

💡 4 types of Swiss children’s ICT use 🧒📱
💡 Higher-SES: Limited use vs. learning-oriented use as competing strategies
💡 Lower-SES: Parents more critical of ICT, but limited use is still less common

doi.org/10.1080/1748...

How do different digital media activities impact youth's affective well-being, and how does this vary across developmental stages?

Mayen, S., Reinhardt, A., & Wilhelm, C. examined this in an ESM study among Austrian youth 🇦🇹.

🔓 Open access: doi.org/10.1080/1748...

3️⃣ Finally, the authors of the third set of commentaries in the special issue explore the challenges—and potential opportunities for advancement—embedded in the methods, measures, and theories commonly used by CAM scholars. (1/8)

2️⃣The second set of contributions of the special issue, on evolution and innovation in media and technology, describes how the rapidly changing media environment has impacted childhood and, thus, our CAM research and scholarship (1/7)

1️⃣ This first set of papers in the special issue considers the changing definitions and experiences of children and childhood since JOCAM was first published, and what these changes suggest for CAM scholarship as we look to the future. (1/7)

🎉 The special issue celebrating JoCAM’s 18th birthday it out! The issue brings together 16 commentaries showcasing the incredible diversity and creativity of CAM research and practice from all over the world. 🔓Open access for six months! (1/3) www.tandfonline.com/journals/rch...

JOCAM vol18, issue4 is out!
With great studies from BEL, AUS, ISR, CAN, GER, US, & UK
A commentary by Liselot Hudders & Emma Beuckels on Kidfluencing
A book review by Helle Strandgaard Jensen
on "Histories of children’s television around the world"

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rchm20/1...