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Parental Mediation Theory for the Digital Age
Abstract
This article describes the theory of parental mediation, which has evolved to consider how parents utilize interpersonal communication to mitigate the negative effects that they believe communication media have on their children. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this theory as employed in the sociopsychologically rooted media effects literature as well as sociocultural ethnographic research on family media uses. To account for the emotional work that digital media have introduced into contemporary family life, I review interpersonal communication scholarship based on sociologist A. R. Hochschild's (1977, 1989) work on emotions, and suggest L. Vygotsky's (1978) social development theory as a means of rethinking the role of children's agency in the interactions between parents and children that new media affords. The article concludes by suggesting that in addition to the strategies of active, restrictive, and co-viewing as parental mediation strategies, future research needs to consider the emergent strategy of participatory learning that involves parents and children interacting together with and through digital media.
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- Authors
- Clark, L. S.
- Venue
- Communication Theory
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2011-10-17
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 323-343
- ISSN
- 1050-3293 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1991735731
- Cited by
- 693
- References
- 106
- FWCI
- 41.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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