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The influence of parental smartphone use, eye contact and ‘bystander ignorance’ on child development
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New digital media devices are changing interaction practices rapidly, and this also applies to families. This chapter considers the mechanisms that are essential for understanding and investigating the meaning of parental smartphone use for developing children. The authors introduce the concept of ‘bystander ignorance’, which illustrates the role of smartphone use from the point of view of a bystanding person. Compared to the use of other objects in the home environment, parental smartphone use is exceptional in two major ways: (1) it catches the gaze and draws the caregiver away from the ongoing interaction with the child, and (2) it conveys exceptionally few signs of the activity that the caregiver is engaged in. Based on previous research on the development of social and emotional skills, the authors argue that parental smartphone use resulting in children’s bystander ignorance may have some effects on child development, and there is an urgent need for further research on the matter.
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“Moreover, parental facial expressions during smartphone use convey unclear information about parents’ emotional state, not allowing the child to know to what these expressions refer.”
From Smartphones in the nursery: Parental smartphone use and parental sensitivity and responsiveness within parent–child interaction in early childhood (0–5 years): A scoping review (2021) · cites this paper as Raudaskoski et al., 2017
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“Raudaskoski, Mantere, and Valkonen (2017) offer a more complex idea; they argue that while using their phones, parents withdraw their gaze from the child and redirect their gaze to a competing frame of involvement—the device screen; turning to the device interrupts direct face‐to‐face communication.”
From Smartphones in the nursery: Parental smartphone use and parental sensitivity and responsiveness within parent–child interaction in early childhood (0–5 years): A scoping review (2021) · cites this paper as Raudaskoski et al., 2017
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- Authors
- Raudaskoski, S., Mantere, E., & Valkonen, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Tampere (FI)
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- Venue
- Media, Family Interaction and the Digitalization of Childhood
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Published
- 2017-09-29
- Pages
- 173-184
- OpenAlex
- W2802651735
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Oskar-Bordeaux (Universite de Bordeaux) (submittedVersion)
- Tampere University Institutional Repository (Tampere University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Keywords
- parental smartphone use, eye contact, child development, parent-child interaction, social-emotional development, caregiver attention, gaze
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