Brownell Cassie J
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada.
Child Soc. 2022 Jul 26. doi: 10.1111/chso.12616.
Framed by critical literacies, the author adapted ethnographic methods to virtual spaces to examine radio as an alternative way to enhance adult understanding of children's COVID-19 experiences. Drawing on a subset of child-produced radio segments from March 2021, she foregrounds how children in an extracurricular program strategically used radio to share their pandemic experiences with their community. Supplemented by 5 months of virtual observations, she identified how child-DJs used radio to share how-through the COVID-19 pandemic-they cared and their community. Ultimately, she argues radio is one tool for coming to know children as community change agents.