Dean Lemish is a media researcher in the fields of children, youth, and leisure culture. An International Communication Association fellow, she is the founding editor of the Journal of Children and Media. Her research interests include children and media, gender representations and identity construction, qualitative methodologies, and feminist theory. She has published numerous books, refereed journal articles, and book chapters. She is currently engaged in various research projects, including on the role of mobile media in parent-child interaction; grandparents mediating their grandchildren's media use; and media and identity in the lives of migrant-academics.