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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483388403321

Autore

Nansen Bjørn

Titolo

Young Children and Mobile Media : Producing Digital Dexterity / / by Bjørn Nansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030498757

3030498751

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Pivot

Disciplina

004.678083

025.042083

Soggetti

Communication

Digital media

Youth - Social life and customs

Science - Social aspects

Media and Communication

Digital and New Media

Youth Culture

Science and Technology Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Researching young children and mobile media -- 2. Household mobile media arrangements -- 3. A touchscreen media habitus -- 4. Parental intermediation on YouTube -- 5. Digital toys and datafying play -- 6. Postdigital playgrounds. .

Sommario/riassunto

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. 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. .