Parental Mediation Theory for the Digital Age

By Lynn Schofield Clark. 2011

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Development and Validation of a Survey Instrument to Measure Children's Advertising Literacy (2016, background): “Parental mediation theory posits that parents utilize different interpersonal communication strategies in their attempts to mediate the effects of the media in their children’s lives, one of them being active mediation (Clark, 2011).”
Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks for Children Online: The Role of Digital Skills in Emerging Strategies of Parental Mediation (2017, background): “This calls for the attention to child-initiated activities within the repertoire of Internet mediation strategies, as children turn to parents for shared experience and support (Clark, 2011; Shin, 2013).”
A Qualitative Inquiry into the Contextualized Parental Mediation Practices of Young Children’s Digital Media Use at Home (2016, methodology): “…chosen to use a new umbrella term, distant mediation, because our data pointed to varied nuances of monitoring young children’s media use and suggested the existence of a less hierarchical role for the parent, who is no longer expected to always take the lead, as Clark (2011b) has hypothesized.”
Reducing Harm From Media: A Meta-Analysis of Parental Mediation (2019, background): “…of parental mediation is rooted in media effects and information processing theories, as well as interpersonal communication theories, and it explains how interpersonal communication between parents and children reduces the negative effects of media on children (Clark, 2011; Shin & Ismail, 2014).”
Rules? Role Model? Relationship? The Impact of Parents on Their Children’s Problematic Mobile Phone Involvement (2019, background): “Co-use refers to parents’ and children’s joint media use (e.g., Clark, 2011; Livingstone, Haddon, Görzig, & Ólafsson, 2011; Livingstone & Helsper, 2008; Nathanson, 2002; Sonck, Nikken, & De Haan, 2013; Shin, 2015; Valkenburg et al., 2013).”
Social Media and Fear of Missing Out in Adolescents: The Role of Family Characteristics (2020, background): “When parents are concerned about their children’s online behavior, they pursue various strategies to regulate and guide it (Clark, 2011; Vanwynsberghe et al., 2015).”