Digital Youth The Role of Media in Development
Youth around the world are fittingly described as digital natives because of their comfort and skill with technological hardware and content. Recent studies indicate that an overwhelming majority of children and teenagers use the Internet, cell phones, an
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Kaveri Subrahmanyam · David Šmahel
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Kaveri Subrahmanyam Department of Psychology California State University Los Angeles, CA 90032-8227, USA [email protected]
David Šmahel Institute for Research on Children, Youth and Family Faculty of Social Studies Masaryk University Jostova 10 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic [email protected]
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Preface
Digital media, such as computers, the Internet, video games, and mobile phones, have come to occupy a central place in the lives of today’s youth. For those of us in contact with them – parents, teachers, physicians, researchers, and others – evidence of this is plentiful. Consider the teen doing homework while instant messaging several friends at the same time or one furiously texting during a family outing, in bed, or even at school. Such scenarios are becoming commonplace and many parents and teachers have encountered them at one point or another. Remarkably, most young people use interactive technologies and seem to be living their lives online. It is important to consider the implications of young people’s online living, especially for their development and well-being. In 2006, the journal Developmental Psychology published a special section on children, adolescents, and the Internet. It was one of the first attempts to bring together high-quality developmental research to understand youth and their digital worlds and a new field of inquiry was born. Since that special section was published, the digital landscape has changed dramatically. Chat rooms were joined by instant messaging and then social networking sites. Computers became sleeker and portable, and mobile phones took on the capabilities of computers as they got smaller and smaller. Not surprisingly, as the technologies changed, so did their use by youth. As research in this new line of study began
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