Media, Family Interaction and the Digitalization of Childhood

Edited by Anja Riitta Lahikainen, Professor Emerita of Social Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tiina Mälkiä, Postdoctoral Researcher and Katja Repo, Tampere Centre for Childhood, Youth and Family Research, Tampere University, Finland

• Contents:1. Introduction. Media and family interactionAnja Riitta Lahikainen, Tiina Mälkiä and Katja RepoPART I CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES AND MEDIA2. New media, family interaction and socializationAnja Riitta Lahikainen3. Social interactional understandings in investigating family practices of digital media useSusan Danby4. Performative family lifeTiina Mälkiä5. Children’s media use – the perspective of time useKatja Repo and Satu ValkonenPART II MEDIA RELATED PRACTICES AND FAMILY INTERACTION6. Practices of parental mediation in television viewingAku Kallio7. Masculine and feminine aspects of interaction in the context of watching TVEero Suoninen8. When a computer dominates a child's attentionEero Suoninen9. Sticky media deviceEerik Mantere and Sanna Raudaskoski 10. Together individuallySanna Tiilikainen and Ilkka ArminenPART III CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION11. The influence of parental smartphone use, eye contact and ‘bystander ignorance’ on child developmentSanna Raudaskoski, Eerik Mantere and Satu Valkonen12. Family, media, and the digitalization of childhoodAnja Riitta Lahikainen and Ilkka Arminen13. Commentary: The need for evidence based parenting supportPeter Nikken14. AfterwordJackie MarshIndex

'This innovative book breaks new ground methodologically and theoretically as it examines the diversity and complexity of media use within the daily interactions of 26 Finnish families. Extensive video recording was used to capture both spatial and temporal diversity of media use within the home. An original and important contribution to our understanding of how new media changes and organizes interaction within the daily lives of contemporary families. A nuanced view of both the positive and negative aspects of media use is richly documented.'--Marjorie Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles, US