Young Children and Mobile Media Producing Digital Dexterity

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Edition:
1st ed. 2020
Author:
Bjørn Nansen
ISBN:
9783030498757
Related ISBNs:
9783030498740
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2020-08-08
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2020
Copyright by:
The Editor 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies