2021-01-25 at 01:16:46
Neha Hooda from University of Debrecen
will present Screen Experiences of Children in India in the wake of COVID 19
Abstract
In this paper I explore the present-day screen experiences of children in India illustrating the drastic changes in consumption patterns that have come into being in the wake of COVID 19 pandemic. For close to a year now, schooling has gone completely online taking the children from the world’s largest democracy out of a physical learning environment and into a completely new virtual one out of compulsion. There has been an unprecedented rise of media consumption across three kinds of screen experiences –online schooling, audio-visual entertainment and interactive gaming. I illustrate this rapidly changing media scape concerning children in India through a case study of a young child from urban India and anchor this discussion within the framework of media rituals as elaborated by Nick Couldry.
In section
Cultural Studies