Overview
Develops the concept of "digital dexterity" as a holistic framework for understanding children's interactions with digital and mobile media
Engages timely questions around children's digital literacy, screen time, and digital play that have attracted both academic and popular interest
Draws on five years of empirical research, including observations of and interviews with children and their parents
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book investigates young children’s everyday digital practices, embodied digital play, and digital media products – such as mobile applications, digital games, and software tools. The book provides a critical and collective perspective on the ways young children’s mobile media culture is currently being reshaped.
The chapters draw on research that extends from the household to social media platforms and public spaces. Moving across these interconnected sites, this book explores how young children are currently configured as consumers, users, and subjects of mobile media technologies. These arrangements of media use are analysed through a conceptual lens of digital dexterity, which locates children’s capacities to use mobile media interfaces and digital products not simply in terms of physical skills or developmental capacities, but importantly, through the design and affordances of mobile technologies and touch-based interfaces, cultures of interactive play and digital parenting, and economies of digital platforms and technology product design.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bjørn Nansen is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely across studies of technology innovation and adoption, digital media industries, and cultural practices of media use in everyday and family life. His work often focuses on emerging and marginal digital practices, and is based in interdisciplinary approaches to research. His current projects investigate children’s YouTube, digital memorialising, and sleep management technologies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Young Children and Mobile Media
Book Subtitle: Producing Digital Dexterity
Authors: Bjørn Nansen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49875-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49874-0Published: 24 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49875-7Published: 23 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 158
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media and Communication, Digital/New Media, Youth Culture, Culture and Technology