'COVID taught me…': Examining child-radio productions in the COVID-19 pandemic

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 about and for their community. Ultimately, she argues radio is one tool for coming to know children as community change agents.