What 'children' experience and 'adults' may overlook: phenomenological approaches to media practice, education and research

Ashley Woodfall, Marketa Zezulkova
2016 Journal of Children and Media  
Media forms long treated as distinct are increasingly seen by organisations that make media for children to be intrinsically linked, or even inseparable (Berger & Woodfall, 2012) . The suggestion within this paper is that the lived media experience of children similarly spans media platforms, and phenomenologically speaking, children cannot therefore be addressed through any single platform. We argue however that there are many of us within media practice, education and research who have been
more » ... ow to realign our understanding of the ways in which media are produced and dialogically engaged with-and can be said to underappreciate how children operate across complex intersubjective systems in which all media (indeed all aspects of lived experience) are interconnected (Zezulkova, 2015a) . By means of (admittedly truncated) discussion, the paper initially looks to address the ways in which the children's media practice landscape operates, before turning to consider lived media experience within education. To further argument, and offer illustration, we touch on two recent qualitative studies as conducted by this paper's authors that, although separate, shared certain underpinnings and arrived at relatable findings. The
doi:10.1080/17482798.2015.1121889 fatcat:64zqyblhuvddvgagunt2llychq