Toddlers’ digital media practices and everyday parental struggles: Interactions and meaning-making as digital media are domesticated
In this article, the Swedish findings from a European comparative study on 0–3-year-old children and their digital lives are presented and discussed in relation to domestication theory, including the concept of moral economy. More specifically, attention is paid to toddler's appropriation of di...
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| description | In this article, the Swedish findings from a European comparative study on 0–3-year-old children and their digital lives are presented and discussed in relation to domestication theory, including the concept of moral economy. More specifically, attention is paid to toddler's appropriation of digital technology and the parents’ moral struggles: the negotiations between the parents concerning the introduction of digital media practices in early childhood, the selection of content, and the monitoring of children. Parents of very young children have ambivalent feelings towards digital media technologies and struggle to make the right decision for their children. The study demonstrates that the domestication of digital technology in early childhood is far more multifaceted and troublesome for parents to handle than previous research has found. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c96dc9616ddd4da2a77e614c265ac1f62025-02-02T15:48:50ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192021-09-0142s4597810.2478/nor-2021-0041Toddlers’ digital media practices and everyday parental struggles: Interactions and meaning-making as digital media are domesticatedSandberg Helena0Sjöberg Ulrika1Sundin Ebba2Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, SwedenSchool of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, SwedenSchool of Health and Welfare, Halmstad University, SwedenIn this article, the Swedish findings from a European comparative study on 0–3-year-old children and their digital lives are presented and discussed in relation to domestication theory, including the concept of moral economy. More specifically, attention is paid to toddler's appropriation of digital technology and the parents’ moral struggles: the negotiations between the parents concerning the introduction of digital media practices in early childhood, the selection of content, and the monitoring of children. Parents of very young children have ambivalent feelings towards digital media technologies and struggle to make the right decision for their children. The study demonstrates that the domestication of digital technology in early childhood is far more multifaceted and troublesome for parents to handle than previous research has found.https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-00410–3-year-old childrendigital media practicesdomestication theorymoral economy“day in the life” methodology |
| spellingShingle | Sandberg Helena Sjöberg Ulrika Sundin Ebba Toddlers’ digital media practices and everyday parental struggles: Interactions and meaning-making as digital media are domesticated Nordicom Review 0–3-year-old children digital media practices domestication theory moral economy “day in the life” methodology |
| title | Toddlers’ digital media practices and everyday parental struggles: Interactions and meaning-making as digital media are domesticated |
| title_full | Toddlers’ digital media practices and everyday parental struggles: Interactions and meaning-making as digital media are domesticated |
| title_fullStr | Toddlers’ digital media practices and everyday parental struggles: Interactions and meaning-making as digital media are domesticated |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toddlers’ digital media practices and everyday parental struggles: Interactions and meaning-making as digital media are domesticated |
| title_short | Toddlers’ digital media practices and everyday parental struggles: Interactions and meaning-making as digital media are domesticated |
| title_sort | toddlers digital media practices and everyday parental struggles interactions and meaning making as digital media are domesticated |
| topic | 0–3-year-old children digital media practices domestication theory moral economy “day in the life” methodology |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0041 |
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