Children and Families in the Digital Age

By Elisabeth Gee (editor), Lori Takeuchi (editor), Ellen Wartella (editor)

Book cover of Children and Families in the Digital Age: Learning Together in a Media Saturated Culture

Book description

Children and Families in the Digital Age offers a fresh, nuanced, and empirically-based perspective on how families are using digital media to enhance learning, routines, and relationships. This powerful edited collection contributes to a growing body of work suggesting the importance of understanding how the consequences of digital media use…

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1 author picked Children and Families in the Digital Age as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As a researcher, I’m always looking out for fresh ways to approach familiar problems.

Three problems really bother me. One is the idea of reducing all the different types of media, and all the different ways families use media, to a simplistic formula – screen time. As if we could just measure screen time, reduce it by turning parents into screen time police, and thereby solve the problems of our digital age.

Another is the idea of seeing parents as having all the power and children as willful or ignorant or naughty and so needing to be controlled. As if…

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