TY - JOUR
T1 - Digitally connected but personally disconnected?
T2 - Crisis, digital media and the Australian family
AU - Page Jeffery, Catherine
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2021/3/4
Y1 - 2021/3/4
N2 - Australia’s capital city greeted 2020 already in a state of crisis. The New South Wales South Coast, 150 or so kilometres away and a holiday haven for many Canberrans (including ourselves) was burning. The smoke from what came to be known as the Black Summer bushfires – which burned an area twice the size of Belgium – enveloped Canberra in a dangerous haze. On New Years’ Day, Canberra had the worst air quality in the world, with an air quality index more than 25 times hazardous levels (Remeikis, 2020). People were advised to stay indoors; businesses temporarily shut down; we began wearing facemasks. We never anticipated that these steps would be repeated, for completely unrelated but no less significant reasons, three months later.
AB - Australia’s capital city greeted 2020 already in a state of crisis. The New South Wales South Coast, 150 or so kilometres away and a holiday haven for many Canberrans (including ourselves) was burning. The smoke from what came to be known as the Black Summer bushfires – which burned an area twice the size of Belgium – enveloped Canberra in a dangerous haze. On New Years’ Day, Canberra had the worst air quality in the world, with an air quality index more than 25 times hazardous levels (Remeikis, 2020). People were advised to stay indoors; businesses temporarily shut down; we began wearing facemasks. We never anticipated that these steps would be repeated, for completely unrelated but no less significant reasons, three months later.
KW - bushfires
KW - COVID-19
KW - Crisis
KW - digital media
KW - families
KW - parents
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102195128&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17482798.2020.1858432
DO - 10.1080/17482798.2020.1858432
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85102195128
SN - 1748-2798
VL - 15
SP - 6
EP - 9
JO - Journal of Children and Media
JF - Journal of Children and Media
IS - 1
ER -