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Parental Mediation for Young Children’s Use of Educational Media: A Case Study with Computational Toys and Kits

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Abstract

Parental mediation literature is mostly situated in the contexts of television, Internet use, video games, and mobile devices, while there is less understanding of how parents mediate their children's engagement with educational-focused media. We examine parental involvement in young children's use of a creation-oriented educational media, i.e., coding kits, from a mediation perspective through an interview study. We frame parents' mediation practices along three dimensions: (1) creative mediation, where parents mediate to support children's creating and learning with media; (2) preparative mediation, where parents explore and prepare media for children's engagement; and (3) administrative mediation, where parents administer and regulate their children's media use. Compared to the restrictive, active, and co-using mediation theory, our proposed framework highlights various supportive practices parents take to help their children learn and create with media.We further connect our fndings to Joint Media Engagement and refect on implications for parent involvement in children's creation-oriented media design.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publicationMaking Waves, Combining Strengths
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450380966
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 May 2021
Event2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Japan
Duration: 8 May 202113 May 2021

Publication series

NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/05/2113/05/21

Keywords

  • Educational media
  • Parental mediation theory
  • Parents
  • Young children

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Software

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