Föräldrar som digital natives och digital immigrants
(2024) SOPB63 20241School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Parents today have a responsibility to help navigate their children’s use of digital media to protect them from the risks that come with it. At the same time, digital media has an important role in today's society and can be a tool to help children grow and interact with the world around them. To regulate children's use of media, parents apply different mediation strategies according to parental mediation theory. This study uses the theory of digital natives vs digital immigrants - which argues that there is a difference in digital skill and understanding of the digital world between people born before and after 1980 - to examine differences in parental attitudes and strategies towards their child's social media use. Furthermore, this... (More)
- Parents today have a responsibility to help navigate their children’s use of digital media to protect them from the risks that come with it. At the same time, digital media has an important role in today's society and can be a tool to help children grow and interact with the world around them. To regulate children's use of media, parents apply different mediation strategies according to parental mediation theory. This study uses the theory of digital natives vs digital immigrants - which argues that there is a difference in digital skill and understanding of the digital world between people born before and after 1980 - to examine differences in parental attitudes and strategies towards their child's social media use. Furthermore, this study examines which parental mediation strategy is the most used overall by the parents in this sample. A mean value analysis was conducted from the data of 104 Swedish parents with children under the age of 18, collected through an online survey posted on social media. The analysis indicated that there was no statistically significant correlation between parents' age group and their attitude towards social media or which strategy they used. Active mediation was however used more than restrictive mediation by all parents. The findings indicate that whether parents are digital immigrants and digital natives does not have to be a factor that affects attitudes or use of mediation strategy, however further research would need to be conducted to examine this further. (Less)
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- author
- Olsson, Malin LU and Waldhagen, Frida LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPB63 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- digital natives, digital immigrants, parental mediation, social media, parenthood, active mediation, restrictive mediation, digital skill
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9156625
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-04 20:40:34
- date last changed
- 2024-06-04 20:40:34
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Föräldrar som digital natives och digital immigrants}},
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