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Streaming Childhood

Episode 3

What do parents fear the most? Season 3 of Boss Baby Back in Business explores how parents sometimes go overboard protecting their children, especially through the use of technologies, and what that might mean for parent/child relationships---all with a baby wearing a suit. It’s fun times for all.

Boss Baby Back in Business can be found on Netflix here.

Teaching Tip:

Analyze the episode 11 from season 3 entitled “Who’s a Good Baby” (2020), especially the first few minutes (0-1:35) and the scene in the playground (1:35-3:40). What do these scenes show about being a “good” son or daughter? What are some gaps or flaws in this way of constructing this identity?

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How does genre matter in storytelling and representation? In this podcast, I will explore Netflix’s animated series Hilda and how I use this series in my undergraduate course called Narrative, New Media, and Gaming.

For an English transcript of this episode, see here. For a Spanish translation of the transcript, see here.

Hilda (2021) can be found on Netflix here.

Teaching Tip:

Have your students create an idea for their own casual game using an episode of Hilda (or a graphic novel version). You can find the assignment prompt here, if that’s helpful.

For the graphic novel, please see this link: || Amazon ||

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Have you ever thought about what children think about where they live? In this episode, I will discuss Netflix’s City of Ghosts, an animated series that highlights the history and people of LA from a geospatial and literacies perspective.

For a full English transcript, click here. For a full Spanish transcript, click here.

space #place #communityawareness #history #LA #trans #multiracial #animation #kids

City of Ghosts (2021) can be found on Netflix here.

Teaching Tip:

Have your students explore different stories in their own neighborhoods. If safe, students could interview a neighbor or parent about the neighborhood and take photographs to create a digital, multimodal collage.

For more information on concepts mentioned in this episode:

Geopolitics and Space: Massey’s. (2005) For Space. ||Amazon||

Place and Literacies: Pyles, Rish, & Warner’s (2019) Negotiating place and space through digital literacies ||Amazon||

Multimodality: Andrew Burn and James Durran’s Media Literacy in Schools ||Amazon||

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This introduction to Streaming Childhood has a brief introduction to your host and to the content of this show. 

Host: Damiana Gibbons Pyles, media scholar and educator, Associate Professor in Curriculum and Instruction, Appalachian State University