scholarly journals How Do Toddlers Experience Digital Media? A Case Study of a 28-Month Old Child Learning to Use iPad

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-23
Author(s):  
M.A. Zhukova ◽  
H. Kilani ◽  
J.L. Garcia ◽  
M. Tan ◽  
P.D. Parell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Help Seeking Behaviors

Digital media is becoming increasingly prevalent in households and classroom settings lowering the age of fi rst exposure to technology; however, little is known about how children experience digital media and how their experiences relate to learning and social engagement. In this case study, we followed a 28-month-old boy in a naturalistic setting for 5 weeks, videotaping the process of his interactions with the iPad. Using a combination of video coding, screen recordings, and a formal academic assessment we evaluated the effects of digital media on specifi c learning outcomes, child affective states associated with gains in digital literacy, and the role of social interaction in the process of digital media exposure. We found that the number of errors predicted a signifi cant amount of the variance in the child’s levels of frustration, attentiveness, help-seeking behaviors, and persistence. Two main types of affect, confusion and attentiveness, predicted gains in his iPad profi ciency, providing important insights into the role of emotions in digital learning. With increased levels of iPad profi ciency, we observed an inconsistent pattern of child social engagement. This study is the fi rst, to our knowledge, to use a combination of qualitative observation data, standardized assessment, and quantitative analysis of a child’s behavior in the process of digital literacy learning.

scholarly journals Epilogue: Rethinking digital literacy: Media education in the age of digital capitalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 230-239
Author(s):  
David Buckingham
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
The Media ◽  
Digital Media Literacy

Advocates of digital education have increasingly recognized the need for young people to acquire digital media literacy. However, this idea is often seen in instrumental terms, and is rarely implemented in any coherent or comprehensive way. This paper suggests that we need to move beyond a binary view of digital media as offering risks and opportunities for young people, and the narrow ideas of digital skills and internet safety to which it gives rise. The article propose that we should take a broader and more critical approach to the rise of ‘digital capitalism’, and to the ubiquity of digital media in everyday life. In this sense, the paper argue that the well-established conceptual framework and pedagogical strategies of media education can and should be extended to meet the new challenges posed by digital and social media.This article presents some reflections as an epigraph of the special issue "Digital learning: distraction or default for the future", whose final result has allowed us to group a set of critical research and analysis on the inclusion of digital technologies in educational contexts. The points of view presented in this epigraph is also developed in more detail in the book "The Media Education Manifesto" (Buckingham, 2019).

Agile Teams in Digital Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 340-359
Author(s):  
Rachel Ralph ◽  
Patrick Pennefather
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Reflective Practitioner ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Agile Practices ◽  
Media Environments

As we move towards the third decade of the 21st century, the development of emerging technologies continues to grow alongside innovative practices in digital media environments. This chapter presents a comparative case study of two teams (Team A and Team B) in a professional master's program during a 13-week, project-based course. Based on the role of documentation and the reflective practitioner, team blogs representing learner experiences of Agile practices were analyzed. This case study chapter focused on one blog post of a mid-term release retrospective. The results of this case study are framed around Derby and Larson's (2006) Agile retrospectives framework, including: set the stage, gather data, generating insights, deciding what to do, and closing the retrospective. The case study results suggest the need for public documentation of retrospectives and how this can be challenging with non-disclosure agreements. Also, the authors identify the importance of being a reflective practitioner. Future research on educational and professional practices needs to be explored.

Counseling With a Muslim-American Family

2021 ◽  
pp. 1033-1049
Author(s):  
Margaux Hanes Brown ◽  
Ari-Elle R. West
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Counseling Competencies ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Treatment Interventions ◽  
Help Seeking Behaviors ◽  
The U.S

Islamophobia is the unfounded fear of Islam and resulting hostility that Muslims experience as a religious minority in the U.S. For a marginalized community in the U.S., this increases the risk for poor mental health outcomes and further compounds stigma around help-seeking behaviors. In this case study, a family unit presented for counseling with stress resulting from life cycle stressors. However, the intersectionality of their religious identity affected how the individuals experienced transitions as well as microaggressions. This case study includes a counselor's application of the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies, treatment interventions, and extensions for further professional development.

Digital media as a driver of change in political organisation: 2010 and 2015 UK general elections

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1343-1359
Author(s):  
Anthony Ridge-Newman
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Run Up ◽  
The Impact

In Britain, by 2015, Web 2.0 had become a more widely accepted and established mode of civic engagement of which political e-participation became an observable extension. However, in the run-up to 2010, social media were newer, less understood and largely associated with younger generations. These changes present questions about how wider technocultural developments impacted political engagement between the 2010 and 2015 UK general elections. This article aims to go some way in examining this question with a theoretical focus on the role of Facebook as a driver of change in political organisation. Using the British Conservative Party as a case study, the article analyses and compares events, observations and shifting power relations associated with digital technology and organisational change observed over two election cycles spanning from 2005 to 2015. A focal aim is to examine changes in Conservative Party campaigns and organisation in order to contribute to wider debates about the impact of digital technology in changing the organisation and activities of actors, like political parties and political participants, in democratic contexts. The article concludes that a complex combination of internal and external, technological and human, and grassroots and centralised factors played roles in changing the Conservative Party.

scholarly journals The symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 135485652093374
Author(s):  
Olu Jenzen ◽  
Itir Erhart ◽  
Hande Eslen-Ziya ◽  
Umut Korkut ◽  
Aidan McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Media Practices

This article explores how Twitter has emerged as a signifier of contemporary protest. Using the concept of ‘social media imaginaries’, a derivative of the broader field of ‘media imaginaries’, our analysis seeks to offer new insights into activists’ relation to and conceptualisation of social media and how it shapes their digital media practices. Extending the concept of media imaginaries to include analysis of protestors’ use of aesthetics, it aims to unpick how a particular ‘social media imaginary’ is constructed and informs their collective identity. Using the Gezi Park protest of 2013 as a case study, it illustrates how social media became a symbolic part of the protest movement by providing the visualised possibility of imagining the movement. In previous research, the main emphasis has been given to the functionality of social media as a means of information sharing and a tool for protest organisation. This article seeks to redress this by directing our attention to the role of visual communication in online protest expressions and thus also illustrates the role of visual analysis in social movement studies.

#Blockade: Social Media and the Gulf Diplomatic Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-220
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Sage Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
Digital Media Studies ◽  
The Persian Gulf

AbstractThe online public sphere, and the ways in which its digital media platforms influence discourse, is a crucial but understudied area of research in the six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf. Through a case study of the ongoing Gulf diplomatic crisis, which began in June 2017, this essay draws on the disciplines of political science, communication, and digital media studies to analyze qualitative examples of digital discourse: the role of women, territorial boundaries, and the FIFA World Cup 2022. Linking these flash points to historical struggles between the countries, this essay suggests that the politicization of the online public sphere in the region does not represent a fundamental change in the diplomacy of the region but rather a new battleground for old regional rivalries.

The Role of Intimate Partner Violence, Race, and Ethnicity in Help-Seeking Behaviors

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry Lipsky ◽  
Raul Caetano ◽  
Craig A. Field ◽  
Gregory L. Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Help Seeking Behaviors

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Blankenship
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Global Workforce ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Modern Learning ◽  
Innovative Environments

In the introductory chapter for this volume of cases in digital transformation, author Rebecca Blankenship considers the emerging role of institutions of higher education in providing innovative environments for teaching and learning. She provides a practical foundation for the emergent and evolving need among colleges and universities to embrace digital equity through progressive initiatives that provide diverse and modern learning environments reflective of the needs and expectations of the 21st century students they serve. The author frames her discussion within the contexts of increasing digital literacy among faculty, instituting a culture of innovation and change, as well as considering how initiatives such as the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University's Digital Learning Initiative (DLI) provide realistic solutions for the technology gap between the traditional brick-and-mortar university and the evolving needs of 21st century students and expectations of the increasingly connected and competitive global workforce.

Counseling With a Muslim-American Family

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-65
Author(s):  
Margaux Hanes Brown ◽  
Ari-Elle R. West
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Counseling Competencies ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Treatment Interventions ◽  
Help Seeking Behaviors ◽  
The U.S

Islamophobia is the unfounded fear of Islam and resulting hostility that Muslims experience as a religious minority in the U.S. For a marginalized community in the U.S., this increases the risk for poor mental health outcomes and further compounds stigma around help-seeking behaviors. In this case study, a family unit presented for counseling with stress resulting from life cycle stressors. However, the intersectionality of their religious identity affected how the individuals experienced transitions as well as microaggressions. This case study includes a counselor's application of the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies, treatment interventions, and extensions for further professional development.

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