Early Childhood and Digital Media

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Early Childhood and Digital Media
	Contents
	1 Introduction
	2 Review of the Literature: Shifting the Lens from “Screen Time” to “Family Media Ecology”
		2.1 Traditional Measures of Screen Time
		2.2 The Family Media Ecology
		2.3 Digital Media Content
			2.3.1 Traditional Screen Media
			2.3.2 Interactive Touchscreen Media
		2.4 Context of Digital Media Use
			2.4.1 Parental Mediation
			2.4.2 Technoference
			2.4.3 Motivations for Media Use
			2.4.4 Structural Factors
		2.5 Child Outcomes: A Focus on Content and Context
			2.5.1 Sleep
			2.5.2 Language
			2.5.3 Executive Function and Attention
			2.5.4 Social Competence
	3 Review of Theoretical Models of Digital Media Effects That Inform the DREAMER Framework
		3.1 The Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model
			3.1.1 Differential Susceptibility through Child Factors
			3.1.2 Differential Susceptibility through Sociocontextual Factors
		3.2 The Interactional Theory of Childhood Problematic Media Use
		3.3 Other Perspectives with Implications for Digital Media Effects
			3.3.1 Parent Motivations for Digital Media Use
			3.3.2 Family Systems Perspective
			3.3.3 Relational Dynamics and Developmental Cascades
			3.3.4 Cognitive Constraints and Developmental Considerations
			3.3.5 The Role of Human–Computer Interactions
	4 Developing a New Conceptual Framework for Understanding Digital Media Effects on Children: The DREAMER Framework
		4.1 Features of the DREAMER Conceptual Framework
			4.1.1 Individual, Relational, and Family Characteristics
			4.1.2 Structural Factors
			4.1.3 Media Motivations
			4.1.4 Media Use Patterns
			4.1.5 Responses to Media
			4.1.6 Longer-Term Individual and Relational Outcomes
		4.2 The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study Using the DREAMER
Framework
	5 An Evolving Digital Media Landscape: The Problem of Measurement and Content Analysis
		5.1 The Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure
(CAFE) Toolkit
			5.1.1 Media Attitudes Questionnaire
			5.1.2 Time Use Diary
			5.1.3 Passive Mobile Sensing with the Chronicle App
			5.1.4 Ecological Momentary and Daily Assessment (EMA and EDA)
			5.1.5 Future Directions: Assessment of Design Affordances
	6 Future Directions Using the DREAMER Framework
		6.1 Individual Parental Characteristics and Family Media Ecology
		6.2 Developmental Cascades
		6.3 Pathways to Healthy and Problematic Media Use
		6.4 More Precise and Efficient Measurement of Digital Media Use
		6.5 Collaborative and Synergistic Science
	7 Conclusions
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