Full Description
Media psychologist Eric Rasmussen explores the vital role of parents in empowering children to make media choices that promote their well-being.
Rasmussen challenges prevailing assumptions about human nature in a way that pushes the broader field of human communication and its disciplinary offspring, children, and media beyond the bounds of current dominant paradigms. Media Parenting reviews past empirical findings, advocates for media parenting's reconceptualization, and proposes a research roadmap leading to a more enriching, theoretical understanding of the dynamic interactions between parents, children, and media.
Contents
1. The Nature of Children
2. Media and the Home Environment
3. Effects of Children's Media Use
4. Roots and Evolution of Media Parenting
5. Predictors for Parenting Approaches to Media
6. Children's Media Use and Media Parenting
7. Physical Health and Media Parenting
8. Socio-Emotional Well-Being and Media Parenting
9. Mental Health and Media Parenting
10. Cognitive Development, Academic Performance, and Media Parenting
11. Media Parenting Methods and Measures
12. Prescriptive Models of Media Parenting
Conclusion: A Roadmap for Future Research
Bibliography
Index
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