Affiliation:
1. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Department of Communication and Performing Arts Largo Gemelli 1 Milan Italy
2. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Department of Communication and Performing Arts Milan Italy
Abstract
Abstract
The discrepancy between children’s actual amount of viewing time and parents’ accounts of their concerns, rules, and parental mediation choices has been documented in empirical research, and typically interpreted through the lens of the Uses and Gratifications theory – showing how parents change their attitudes towards screen media in order to satisfy their own needs. Based on a qualitative longitudinal research project, including app-based media diaries, with 20 families with at least one child aged eight or younger, we aim to make two contributions to the literature. With regard to theory, we aim to highlight the heterogeneous and contingent ways of balancing the place of digital media in children’s lives that arise from parents navigating screen time discourses, social pressures, and daily schedules. With regard to methods, we argue for the combination of qualitative data and app-based media diaries to contextualise and interpret potential discrepancies between reported screen time and parental anxieties or hopes about digital media.
Subject
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Communication
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