This study collected a sample of YouTube videos in which parents recorded their young children utilizing mobile touch-screen devices. Focusing on the videos that received the greatest number of views and comments, the paper analyzes the ways in which babies’ “digital dexterity” is coded and understood in terms of contested notions of “naturalness” and the ways in which the display of these capabilities are produced for a networked public. This reading of the “baby-iPad encounter” helps expand existing scholarly concepts such as parental mediation and technology domestication. Recruiting several theoretical frameworks, the paper seeks to go beyond concerns of mobile devices and immobile children by analyzing children’s digital dexterity not ...
In contemporary society, digital media are fully integrated in our daily lives, indispensable for ou...
A young mother with a two-year-old and a four-year-old is asked about her experience of parenting. \...
This chapter discusses the theoretical and methodological understandings that underpin research inve...
We investigate the ways young children’s use of mobile touchscreen interfaces is both understood and...
Internet-connected tablets and smart phones are being used increasingly by young children. Little is...
Internet-connected tablets and smart phones are being used increasingly by young children. Little is...
This article highlights the necessity of considering socio-cultural values and attitudes when design...
Providing children with digital opportunities while equally minimizing risks is a challenging respon...
This article establishes ways that family members engage and disengage in talk so as to manage thei...
As children access to the internet at ever younger ages, questions arise as to whether the use of to...
Despite being often ambivalent regarding the potential benefits and risks of digital media, parents ...
This research investigates the growing relationship between media industries and the everyday viewin...
As children access to the internet at ever younger ages, questions arise as to whether the use of to...
Shared parent–child experiences while engaged with an iPadTM were examined to determine if and then ...
Since the mobile phone and internet access first became more widespread the social research communit...
In contemporary society, digital media are fully integrated in our daily lives, indispensable for ou...
A young mother with a two-year-old and a four-year-old is asked about her experience of parenting. \...
This chapter discusses the theoretical and methodological understandings that underpin research inve...
We investigate the ways young children’s use of mobile touchscreen interfaces is both understood and...
Internet-connected tablets and smart phones are being used increasingly by young children. Little is...
Internet-connected tablets and smart phones are being used increasingly by young children. Little is...
This article highlights the necessity of considering socio-cultural values and attitudes when design...
Providing children with digital opportunities while equally minimizing risks is a challenging respon...
This article establishes ways that family members engage and disengage in talk so as to manage thei...
As children access to the internet at ever younger ages, questions arise as to whether the use of to...
Despite being often ambivalent regarding the potential benefits and risks of digital media, parents ...
This research investigates the growing relationship between media industries and the everyday viewin...
As children access to the internet at ever younger ages, questions arise as to whether the use of to...
Shared parent–child experiences while engaged with an iPadTM were examined to determine if and then ...
Since the mobile phone and internet access first became more widespread the social research communit...
In contemporary society, digital media are fully integrated in our daily lives, indispensable for ou...
A young mother with a two-year-old and a four-year-old is asked about her experience of parenting. \...
This chapter discusses the theoretical and methodological understandings that underpin research inve...