The touch-screen generation: Trends in Dutch parents’ perceptions of young children’s media use from 2012–2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nikken
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Children's Media ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Adoption Theory ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Lag Model ◽  
Displacement Theory

Abstract Based on a time-lag model, this study tested for changes in young children’s (1–6 years) home access and use of digital media in the 2012–2018 period as well as in their parents’ views on such media. What it found was that in only a few years the digital devices available to children have become more mobile (tablets and smartphones), more accessible, and more numerous in these children’s bedrooms, especially in single-parent households. Also, on average children have strongly increased their daily media use—up to 102 minutes. This is especially true for both younger children (3 years or less, plus 30 minutes) and children in middle to highly educated households (plus 25 minutes). Our findings support the complementary media adoption theory more than the displacement theory. Over the years parents have tended more and more to use digital media as ‘babysitters’, while they also found it increasingly difficult to stop their children from using such media, which may have major implications for parenting support activities.

scholarly journals Implications of low or high media use among parents for young children’s media use

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nikken
Keyword(s):  
Media Use ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Children's Media ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Family Types ◽  
Level Number ◽  
Very High ◽  
At Home

Using an online questionnaire among 1,381 parents (children 0-7 years) in the Netherlands I investigated a) the congruence between the time that parents and children spend on various media; b) how several parent, child and household characteristics vary among four family types: low, moderate, high, and very high media consumers; and c) which characteristics most strongly differentiate these four family types. The analyses reveal that parents vary widely in their media consumption (from about 1 to more than 6½ hours media per day). Since the children’s media use parallels their parent’s, parents seem to provide an important example in the home. Data also show that lower and higher use families differ significantly on income, education level, number of devices at home, views on media for children, ease of applying co-active mediation and children’s proficiency in media use. Finally, the four family types can best be distinguished on the basis of quantity characteristics (education level, number of screens at home, time spent by children on media) and quality characteristics (type of media content used, ease of mediation, views on media for children). Consequences for young children’s development and parenting support are described.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study on Children’s Digital Media Use and Parents’ Self-interest

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne M. Geurts ◽  
Ina M. Koning ◽  
Helen Vossen ◽  
Regina J.J.M. Van den Eijnden
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Children's Media ◽  
Targeted Sampling ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Role Of Parents

AbstractThis qualitative study provides insight into the role of parents’ self-interest in digital media use of children in different age groups. We conducted 31 semi-structured interviews with fathers/mothers of children aged 3–16 years who were recruited via targeted sampling. A deductive and inductive content analysis was applied. Results show that parents’ self-interest in letting children use digital media includes being able to do other tasks without being bothered, having some me-time, managing children’s behavior, avoiding discussions, having moments to use digital media themselves and spending quality-time together. In addition, we found that the manner in which parents let children use digital media out of self-interest seems to depend on age. With younger children, parents initiate digital media use or set times at which children are allowed to use digital media. With older children, parents use a passive manner by omitting restrictive responses to their children’s media use. Current findings can be used to inform interventions aimed at reducing children’s screen time.

Reinforcement Effects between Digital Media Use and Political Participation: A Meta-Analysis of Repeated-Wave Panel Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (S1) ◽  
pp. 355-365
Author(s):  
Jennifer Oser ◽  
Shelley Boulianne
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Reinforcement Effect ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Panel Studies ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract As digital media use has rapidly increased in prevalence and diversified in form, scholars across the globe have focused extensive attention on how the use of digital media relates to political participation. To assess the results of this emerging body of research, we conduct the first meta-analysis of repeated-wave panel data studies on the relationship between digital media use and political participation. The findings, based on 38 survey-based, repeated-wave panel studies (279 coefficients) bring new evidence to bear on two questions central to this literature. First, the findings provide new insight into the classic mobilization versus reinforcement debate: contrary to common assumption, the findings support a reinforcement effect, whereby those who are already politically active are motivated to use digital media. Second, the results indicate that the relationship between digital media use and political participation is durable, as studies with a longer time lag were more likely to yield positive and significant effects. Taken together, this evidence in support of a durable reinforcement effect implies the potential for digital media use to contribute to increased inequality in political participation over time. In the concluding discussion, we outline directions for further theoretical inquiry and empirical research that leverage the value of repeated-wave panel studies to make causal inferences.

scholarly journals Opposing narratives about children’s digital media use: a critical discourse analysis of online public advice given to parents in Australia and Belgium

2020 ◽  
Vol 176 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-137
Author(s):  
Bieke Zaman ◽  
Donell Holloway ◽  
Lelia Green ◽  
Kelly Jaunzems ◽  
Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Golden Rule ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Children's Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Developmental Age ◽  
Parental Guidance

What are the public discourses about parental guidance of children’s digital media use in Australia and Belgium? The findings of a multi-method interpretive content analysis suggest that both risks and opportunities are made significant, (re-)claiming power for parents to decide what is realistic. Belgian critical-optimistic commentary suggests that it is normal to see a variety of parenting practices in society, encouraging parents to make informed decisions considering the child’s developmental age and mutual trust. Australian public commentary features emotionally laden, opposing views, whereby restriction seems the golden rule for guiding young children’s engagement with digital media. Across the 30 months of the dataset, however, Australian pieces began to give voice to experts who embrace more relaxed rules. The study illuminates how public narratives are sites of political manoeuvring, revealing ideological stances relating to parental mediation and children’s media use, sensitive to and reflective of situated meanings bound by space and time.

scholarly journals Educational and Fun? Parent Versus Preschooler Perceptions and Co-Use of Digital and Print Media

AERA Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 233285841986108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle A. Strouse ◽  
Lisa A. Newland ◽  
Daniel J. Mourlam
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Parental Beliefs ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Digital Books ◽  
Print Book ◽  
Digital Book ◽  
Parent Child

This study was designed to assess parental beliefs, motivations, and facilitative co-use of print and digital media with preschoolers and identify differences between parents’ and children’s perceptions of these media. We surveyed 43 parents and interviewed their 3- to 5-year-old children. Parents reported their child enjoyed print more than digital books and predicted their child would choose a print over a digital book. Parents indicated they believed print was more educational and entertaining than digital media and were motivated to use print for children’s learning, relaxation, entertainment, and parent-child bonding. Parents also reported they use fewer facilitative behaviors when co-using digital than print media. Children more often chose to read the digital over the print book and more often selected digital devices across most motives. This study highlights a contrast between how parents and children view media and suggests that parents might better facilitate children’s digital media use by creating more interactive digital media co-use opportunities.

scholarly journals Digital Natives? New and Old Media and Children's Outcomes

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bittman ◽  
Leonie Rutherford ◽  
Jude Brown ◽  
Lens Unsworth
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Parental Mediation ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Time Diaries

The current generation of young children has been described as ‘digital natives’, having been born into a ubiquitous digital media environment. They are envisaged as educationally independent of the guided interaction provided by ‘digital immigrants’: parents and teachers. This article uses data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) to study the development of vocabulary and traditional literacy in children aged from 0 to 8 years; their access to digital devices; parental mediation practices; children's use of digital devices as recorded in time-diaries; and, finally, the association between patterns of media use and family contexts on children's learning. The analysis shows the importance of the parental context in framing media use for acquiring vocabulary, and suggests that computer (but not games) use is associated with more developed language skills. Independently of these factors, raw exposure to television is not harmful to learning.

A distributed vaporization time-lag model for gas turbine combustor dynamics

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAYESH MEHTA ◽  
P. MUNGUR ◽  
W. DODDS ◽  
L. DODGE
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Gas Turbine Combustor ◽  
Lag Model

scholarly journals A systematic review and meta-analysis of discrepancies between logged and self-reported digital media use

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Parry ◽  
Brittany I. Davidson ◽  
Craig J. R. Sewall ◽  
Jacob T. Fisher ◽  
Hannah Mieczkowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Meta Analysis

Exploring ‘digital placemaking’

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-578
Author(s):  
Germaine Halegoua ◽  
Erika Polson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Broad Framework ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Control ◽  
Connected Spaces

This brief essay introduces the special issue on the topic of ‘digital placemaking’ – a concept describing the use of digital media to create a sense of place for oneself and/or others. As a broad framework that encompasses a variety of practices used to create emotional attachments to place through digital media use, digital placemaking can be examined across a variety of domains. The concept acknowledges that, at its core, a drive to create and control a sense of place is understood as primary to how social actors identify with each other and express their identities and how communities organize to build more meaningful and connected spaces. This idea runs through the articles in the issue, exploring the many ways people use digital media, under varied conditions, to negotiate differential mobilities and become placemakers – practices that may expose or amplify preexisting inequities, exclusions, or erasures in the ways that certain populations experience digital media in place and placemaking.

scholarly journals Digital Media Use and Suicidal Behavior in U.S. Adolescents, 2009-2017

2021 ◽  
pp. 101497
Author(s):  
Adam M. Leventhal ◽  
Junhan Cho ◽  
Katherine M. Keyes ◽  
Jennifer Zink ◽  
Kira E. Riehm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Media Use
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