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- Title
Children's use of ICT, family mediation, and social inequalities.
- Authors
Diogo, Ana Matias; Silva, Pedro; Viana, Joana
- Abstract
Children have increasing access, and at younger ages, to ICT. This results from state policy measures, or from families having progressively provided ICT access to their children, or both of these influences. As a critical approach to the impact of technology in the construction of social change, this paper seeks to understand how children's relationships are built with ICT, and how family background and mediation affects this relationship, within the context of socialisation and a certain position in social space. From two case studies we present results of a multivariate analysis as well as qualitative data. The data suggest that the democratisation of access to ICT, amplified by the wide distribution of a laptop computer to children in elementary schools, has resulted in distinct profiles of use by children. These profiles appear linked to different (academic and digital) family resources and diverse parental involvement concerning these uses (regulation and support).
- Subjects
INFORMATION &; communication technologies; TECHNOLOGY &; children; SOCIAL change
- Publication
Issues in Educational Research, 2018, Vol 28, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
0313-7155
- Publication type
Article