Beyond Screen Time: A Synergistic Approach to a More Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure During Early Childhood

Frontiers in Psychology

Michaela Slussareff²  Adriana Bus³  Francesca Bellagamba⁴  caroline Fitzpatrick⁴  Carolin Konrad⁵  Deborah Nichols⁶  Jenny Radesky⁷  Rachel Barr⁸  Olivia Blanchfield⁸  Sylvia Rusnak⁸  Felix-Sebastian Koch⁹  Ulrika Birberg-Thornberg⁹  Annette Sundqvist⁹  Mikael Heimann⁹  Heather Kirkorian^1,10  Andy Ribner^1,11  Mollie Epstein^1,12  Joke Durnez^1,12  Sarah Coyne^1,13  Laura Stockdale^1,13 

[1] 0Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University, Prague, Czechia;1School of Communication and Media, University of New York in Prague, Prague, Czechia;2Department of Education, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway;3Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy;Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany;Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States;Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States;Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States;Division of Psychology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, United States;Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States;OpenLattice, Inc., Redwood City, CA, United States;School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States;

关键词: joint media engagement;    digital media;    technoference;    early childhood;    passive sensing;    time use activity data;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01283

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Digital media availability has surged over the past decade. Because of a lack of comprehensive measurement tools, this rapid growth in access to digital media is accompanied by a scarcity of research examining the family media context and sociocognitive outcomes. There is also little cross-cultural research in families with young children. Modern media are mobile, interactive, and often short in duration, making them difficult to remember when caregivers respond to surveys about media use. The Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure (CAFE) Consortium has developed a novel tool to measure household media use through a web-based questionnaire, time-use diary, and passive-sensing app installed on family mobile devices. The goal of developing a comprehensive assessment of family media exposure was to take into account the contextual factors of media use and improve upon the limitations of existing self-report measures, while creating a consistent, scalable, and cost-effective tool. The CAFE tool captures the content and context of early media exposure and addresses the limitations of prior media measurement approaches. Preliminary data collected using this measure have been integrated into a shared visualization platform. In this perspective article, we take a tools-of-the-trade approach (Oakes, 2010) to describe four challenges associated with measuring household media exposure in families with young children: measuring attitudes and practices; capturing content and context; measuring short bursts of mobile device usage; and integrating data to capture the complexity of household media usage. We illustrate how each of these challenges can be addressed with preliminary data collected with the CAFE tool and visualized on our dashboard. We conclude with future directions including plans to test reliability, validity, and generalizability of these measures.

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