What kind of adults will our children become? The impact of growing up in a media-saturated world

Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks for Children Online: The Role of Digital Skills in Emerging Strategies of Parental Mediation

“…Thus McDevitt and Chaffee () write about “trickle‐up influence,” Valcke, Bonte, de Wever, and Rots () explore “reverse socialization,” and van den Bulck, Custers, and Nelissen () propose the “child effect” (see also Spink, Danby, Mallan, & Butler, ). To theorize this, researchers draw on Vygotskian sociocultural theory of child development (see, e.g., Clark, ; Wartella et al, ) or, relatedly, family systems theory (McDevitt & Chaffee, ; Rudi, Walkner, & Dworkin, ) to locate parental mediation within wider family dynamics. Although the family is undergoing changes (Giddens, 1991), gender relations are slower to change; research shows that, for the Internet as with television, girls tend to be monitored and restricted more than boys, while mothers tend to play a more supportive parenting role and are more communicative than fathers (Eastin, Greenberg, & Hofschire, ; Kirwil, ; Valcke et al, ).…”

“…Thus McDevitt and Chaffee (2002) write about "trickle-up influence," Valcke, Bonte, de Wever, and Rots (2010) explore "reverse socialization," and van den Bulck, Custers, and Nelissen (2016) propose the "child effect" (see also Spink, Danby, Mallan, & Butler, 2010). To theorize this, researchers draw on Vygotskian sociocultural theory of child development (see, e.g., Clark, 2011;Wartella et al, 2016) or, relatedly, family systems theory (McDevitt & Chaffee, 2002;Rudi, Walkner, & Dworkin, 2014) to locate parental mediation within wider family dynamics.…”

Facilitating Development Research: Suggestions for Recruiting and Re-Recruiting Children and Families

“…Moreover, some of these strategies may even positively impact recruitment for cross-sectional studies. Given the power longitudinal studies have to clarify developmental trajectories (Nicholson et al, 2002) and provide compelling accountability evidence for interventions (e.g., Barnett, 2013), and given the growing interest in work of this nature (e.g., Wartella et al, 2016) it is important developmental scientists feel capable of re-recruiting sufficiently large samples, even with limited resources and even when they decide to begin such work long after the conclusion of a particular study.…”

“…Across developmental science subfields, researchers have called for more longitudinal research (e.g., Karmiloff-Smith, 1998; Meeus, 2016; Wartella et al, 2016). Such research provides compelling information about developmental trajectories, patterns, sequences, and pathways (Nicholson et al, 2002).…”

Mobile technologies in schools: The student voice

“…Adolescents make up a disproportionate number of Internet users and online socialisation has become normative for this group (Wartella et al, 2016). The Internet has many applications for learning, though there must also be caveats to its use (Seo et al, 2016).…”