Media Literacy In Families: Digital Parenting And Children’s Media Lives In Hungary [before doctoral defense]

Kivonat, rövid leírás

Digital media have become embedded in the everyday conditions of childhood. Children increasingly move between online and offline environments and rely on digital technologies for communication, information, learning, entertainment, and social participation. At the same time, the domestic media environment has shifted from shared and spatially observable forms of media use towards increasingly personalised, mobile, and continuously connected digital engagement, with smartphones becoming a primary means of internet access for children across Europe (Livingstone & Blum-Ross, 2020; Smahel et al., 2020). Social media also enters children’s lives at increasingly young ages, often before the minimum age formally prescribed by major platforms (Smahel et al., 2020). These developments alter not only the intensity of children’s media use but also the conditions under which parents can observe, guide, and support their children’s digital participation. The dissertation therefore approaches digital childhood as a socio-ecological phenomenon shaped jointly by developmental characteristics, family resources and practices, platform environments, and wider social and cultural conditions.