Digital Media and Early Child Development

This book analyzes how the use of digital media by young children can affect their development. Children are starting to use digital media at an earlier age and this use is increasing. With the adoption of technology moving so quickly, research in the area also needs to evolve, and new theoretical and methodological approaches are needed. This book aims to contribute to this field of study by presenting new theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches to help advance research; by discussing results of empirical studies carried out with young children and their caregivers; and by proposing possible interventions to help parents and caregivers better oversee their children's digital media use.

Chapters in this volume are divided into five parts. The first part is dedicated to discussing theoretical and methodological issues involved in the study of digital media use by young children. The second part presents empirical studies that investigate the potential impacts of digital media use in child development. The third part brings together studies analyzing digital media use and early child development during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapters in the fourth part analyze how digital media use affects parenthood. And the fifth and final part presents proposals of educational interventions to help parents and caregivers oversee their young children's digital media consumption.

Digital Media and Early Child Development: Theoretical and Empirical Issues will be of interest to different kinds of researchers and practitioners working with child, family and media studies. Researchers in the fields of developmental psychology and media studies will find innovative theoretical and methodological proposals to study how young children interact with digital media. While child and family psychologists, social workers and pediatricians will find useful information to understand when digital media use can cause problems to children and their families.

Discusses methodological challenges in digital media research with young children and their families Analyzes different sociocultural contexts of digital media usage in the early years Proposes educational interventions to help parents and caregivers better oversee their young children's media use

Auteur

Giana Bitencourt Frizzo is a full professor in the Department of Psychology and Personality Development and at the Psychology Graduation Program at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. She holds a PhD in psychology from the same institution and a productivity grant from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). She coordinates the Center for Research and Intervention on Families with Infants and Children at UFRGS. Her main interests rely on infant and child development and intervention, family relations and screen media use.

Contenu

1. Introduction - What are the defies of Digital media use by children under five nowadays? - Giana Bitencourt Frizzo

Part I - Digital media: theoretical and methodological issues

2. Challenges when evaluating the use of screens: conceptual and measurement aspects - Letícia Carvalho Leão, Mônia Aparecida da Silva, Elisa Cardoso Azevedo, Giana Bitencourt Frizzo

3. The Digital Level of Analysis: A systemic framework for exploring child development in a technology-saturated world - Jasmine Zhang, Sofia Sebben & Dillon T. Browne

4. Digital Contexts: a theoretical framework to research children's digital development - Daniel Abs

Part II - Digital Media and Early Child Development

5. Digital media use during children's sleeping and eating routines - Sofia Sebben, Fernanda Martins Marques, Gabriela Vescovi, Indianara Sehaparini, Giana Bitencourt Frizzo

6. Perspectives on preschooler screen time and global development - Marie-Andrée Binet1 Mélanie Couture, Maíra Lopes Almeida, Mathieu Bégin, & Caroline Fitzpatrick

7. Screen time during caregiving: how can technology reverberate in parent-infant emotional connection? - Débora Becker, Tagma Marina Schneider Donelli

8. Digital media and language development: The Role of child-directed Speech - Gabriela Vescovi, Lauren Schilling, Meredith L. Rowe

9. Video Chat: A Tool for Young Children's Engagement and Early Social Learning - Georgene L. Troseth, Rachel F. Barr, Jennifer M. Zosh, Gabrielle A. Strouse, Lauren J. Myers

Part III - Digital media, COVID-19 pandemic, and early child development

10.Parental overload and the offering of digital media to children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study on the increase in children: usage time and the introduction of new devices - Helena Silveira Riter, Gabriela Vescovi, Giana Bitencourt Frizzo

11. Relationship between early childhood development and digital media use during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil - Mônia Aparecida da Silva, Clarice Oliveira Campos, Letícia Carvalho Leão, Bruno
    Carlos Ferreira

12. Preschoolers, parents, and the pandemic: family media use during the Covid-19 crisis and child development - Caroline Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Harvey, Maíra Lopes Almeida, Marie-Andrée Bine1, Rachelle Wakeham-Lewis ,Gabrielle Garon-Carrier

13. "It was a Survival Tool": Parental perspectives of preschoolers' media use during the COVID-19 pandemic - Maira Lopes Almeida, Patricia Santos da Silva, Caroline Fitzpatrick, Giana Bitencourt Frizzo

Part IV - Digital Media and Parenthood

14. Technoference: how digital media may interfere in family interactions - Maíra Lopes Almeida, Manoela Yustas Mallmann, Sofia Sebben, Caroline Fitzpatrick, Giana Bitencourt Frizzo

15. How do coparenting and maternal support network influence infants' digital media use? - Laura Canani da Rosa, Bruna Gabriella Pedrotti, Manoela Yustas Mallmann, Giana Bitencourt Frizzo

16. What do mothers think about toddlers' digital media use? - Bruna Gabriella Pedrotti, Manoela Yustas Mallmann, Giana Bitencourt Frizzo

17. Parenting and Problematic Internet Use - Fernanda Saraiva Almeida, Bruna Cardoso Gerhardt, Adriane Xavier Arteche

Part V - Digital Media, early child development, and possible interventions

18. Educational intervention on children's digital media use: capacitating caregivers, healthcare professionals, and educators - Maíra Lopes Almeida, Gabriela Vescovi, Manoela Yustas Mallmann, Bruna Gabriella Pedrotti, Laura Canani da Rosa,Sofia Sebben, Giana Bitencourt Frizzo

19. Supporting parents and caregivers: guidelines and interventions focusing on screen exposure in the early years - Tagma Marina Schneider Donelli, Débora Becker.