‘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.