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Young Children and Digital Media in the Home: Parents as Role Models, Gatekeepers, and Companions

Young Children and Digital Media in the Home: Parents as Role Models, Gatekeepers, and Companions

Patricia Dias, Rita Brito
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781522538226|ISBN10: 1522538224|EISBN13: 9781522538233
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3822-6.ch046
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Dias, Patricia, and Rita Brito. "Young Children and Digital Media in the Home: Parents as Role Models, Gatekeepers, and Companions." Digital Multimedia: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 964-981. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3822-6.ch046

APA

Dias, P. & Brito, R. (2018). Young Children and Digital Media in the Home: Parents as Role Models, Gatekeepers, and Companions. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Digital Multimedia: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 964-981). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3822-6.ch046

Chicago

Dias, Patricia, and Rita Brito. "Young Children and Digital Media in the Home: Parents as Role Models, Gatekeepers, and Companions." In Digital Multimedia: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 964-981. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3822-6.ch046

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Abstract

This chapter presents an overview of the digital practices of young children (under 8 years old) in the home. At such an early age, parents are the main mediators of the contact with digital media, thus paying a preponderant role in shaping young children's practices, perceptions and attitudes. In this chapter, we present partial results of a European-scale qualitative project that followed a methodology based on grounded theory, using interviews to families as method. Our findings reveal different roles played by the parents – role models, gatekeepers, companions, and supervisors. We also found that these different roles are related to the parenting style and also to the parents' own digital practices, and most importantly to perceptions and attitudes towards digital media.

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