Children and Families in the Digital Age

Children and Families in the Digital Age offers a fresh, nuanced, and empirically-based perspective on how families are using digital media to enhance learning, routines, and relationships.

Elisabeth Gee is Delbert & Jewell Lewis Chair in Reading & Literacy and Professor at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, USA. Lori M. Takeuchi is Senior Director & Research Scientist at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, USA. Ellen Wartella is Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication and Director, Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University, USA.

1. Introduction Section 1: Child Engagement 2. Media as a Catalyst for Children's Engagement in Learning at Home and Across Settings 3. The Influence of Siblings on the Digital Media Ecology of Latino Children 4. Collecting and Connecting: Intergenerational Learning with Digital Media Section 2: Parent Engagement 5. Digital Media as a Parenting Support Tool for Hispanic Families in the United States 6. Responding to Classroom Change: How Low-Income Latino Parents View Technology's Impacts on Student Learning 7. What Makes Media Educational? Learning from Latino Parents and Children Section 3: Family Engagement, Section Editor: Amber Levinson 8. Children of Immigrants' Experiences in Online Information Brokering 9. Daddy Loves Dora and Mamma Loves Drama: Ethnic Media as Intergenerational Boundary Objects 10. Latino Immigrant Families Bridging Home and School Learning with Technology Appendix: Study Methods