Infants, Interfaces, and Intermediation: Digital Parenting and the Production of “iPad Baby” Videos on YouTube.
We investigate the ways young children’s use of mobile touchscreen interfaces is both understood and shaped by parents through the production of YouTube videos and discussions in associated comment threads. This analysis expands on, and departs from, theories of parental mediation, which have tradit...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 587 - 604 |
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Broadcast Education Association
Dec2016
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