Parental concerns regarding young children and digital technology. An exploratory qualitative investigation in three European countries

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Autor(a) principal: Brito, Rita
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Velicu, Anca, Chaudron, Stephane, Dias, Patrícia, Lobe, Bojana
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/32578
Resumo: One of the effects of the development and widespread diffusion of digital technologies is that in contemporary homes children are being exposed to those technologies since birth. The present study aims to identify the general 'climate of concern' and to map specific worries that parents have with respect to their young children's digital lives. The study was theoretically framed by the intersection of parental mediation theory with media panics theory, and relied on data collected in three European countries (Portugal, Romania and Slovenia) as part of JRC project Young Children (0-8) and digital technologies. The data were collected in 2015, through family visits, this paper focusing on semi structured interviews that took place with parents. The results show that parents of children under 8 years old are concerned about health-related issues, screen addiction, exposure to age-inappropriate content, social exclusion by absence or under use of digital media, concerns of losing opportunities for essential (non-digital) childhood experiences, bad school performance and learning the "right" skills for the future. If some of these concerns echo public discourse on the risks of technology, parents in our study trimmed these fears and adjusted them to their current situation and their parental mediation practices.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Parental concerns regarding young children and digital technology. An exploratory qualitative investigation in three European countries
title Parental concerns regarding young children and digital technology. An exploratory qualitative investigation in three European countries
spellingShingle Parental concerns regarding young children and digital technology. An exploratory qualitative investigation in three European countries
Brito, Rita
Young children
Digital technology
Parental concerns
Parental mediation
Media panics
title_short Parental concerns regarding young children and digital technology. An exploratory qualitative investigation in three European countries
title_full Parental concerns regarding young children and digital technology. An exploratory qualitative investigation in three European countries
title_fullStr Parental concerns regarding young children and digital technology. An exploratory qualitative investigation in three European countries
title_full_unstemmed Parental concerns regarding young children and digital technology. An exploratory qualitative investigation in three European countries
title_sort Parental concerns regarding young children and digital technology. An exploratory qualitative investigation in three European countries
author Brito, Rita
author_facet Brito, Rita
Velicu, Anca
Chaudron, Stephane
Dias, Patrícia
Lobe, Bojana
author_role author
author2 Velicu, Anca
Chaudron, Stephane
Dias, Patrícia
Lobe, Bojana
author2_role author
author
author
author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Brito, Rita
Velicu, Anca
Chaudron, Stephane
Dias, Patrícia
Lobe, Bojana
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Young children
Digital technology
Parental concerns
Parental mediation
Media panics
topic Young children
Digital technology
Parental concerns
Parental mediation
Media panics
description One of the effects of the development and widespread diffusion of digital technologies is that in contemporary homes children are being exposed to those technologies since birth. The present study aims to identify the general 'climate of concern' and to map specific worries that parents have with respect to their young children's digital lives. The study was theoretically framed by the intersection of parental mediation theory with media panics theory, and relied on data collected in three European countries (Portugal, Romania and Slovenia) as part of JRC project Young Children (0-8) and digital technologies. The data were collected in 2015, through family visits, this paper focusing on semi structured interviews that took place with parents. The results show that parents of children under 8 years old are concerned about health-related issues, screen addiction, exposure to age-inappropriate content, social exclusion by absence or under use of digital media, concerns of losing opportunities for essential (non-digital) childhood experiences, bad school performance and learning the "right" skills for the future. If some of these concerns echo public discourse on the risks of technology, parents in our study trimmed these fears and adjusted them to their current situation and their parental mediation practices.
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