Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age

1. Introduction. PART I: NORDIC PERSPECTIVES ON DIGITAL CHILDHOODS. 2. Child development in a digital age: epistemic practices in media societies. 3. Nordic children, media, and technologies: a contested ensemble. 4. Transformations and unresolved tensions: children, school, and technology. 5. Bridging dichotomies between children, nature, and digital technologies. PART II: FORMS OF COMMUNICATION, LITERACY, AND LEARNING. 6. Young children initiating and negotiating their digital literacy practices in their homes. 7. Digital storymaking: a powerful pedagogic approach in the Swedish preschool class. 8. Digital language contact between Icelandic and English. 9. Ideation, playful learning, and making in a Minecraft Virtual Learning Makerspace. 10. Guns and dolls: preschool children's (im)material Christmas list activities. 11. Finnish teachers' leadership narratives in a school's makerspace. PART III: CONCEPTIONS OF AGENCY AND ENGAGEMENT. 12. Young activists: engaging with global climate change in a networked society. 13. 'I could smell the sound of winter': children's aesthetic experiences in their local forest through digital storying. 14. I hate little bits: the collaborative construction of children's creative making in a public library makerspace. 15. Making digital play work: Danish children's playful and creative production with digital media. 16. Rethinking boundaries: sociomaterial perspectives on digital technologies and early childhoods. PART IV: COMMENTARIES: INTERNATIONAL REFLECTIONS. 17. Digital childhoods as nexus of practice. 18. Nordic childhoods and entertainment 'supersystems' in the digital age. 19. Ethical provocations for early childhood research. 20. Conclusions.

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