Children and Adolescents and Digital Media
By Yolanda Linda Reid Chassiakos, Jenny S. Radesky, D. Christakis, M. Moreno, Corinn Cross. Pediatrics, 2016
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Today’s children and adolescents are immersed in both traditional and new forms of digital media. Research on traditional media, such as television, has identified health concerns and negative outcomes that correlate with the duration and content of viewing. Over the past decade, the use of digital media, including interactive and social media, has grown, and research evidence suggests that these newer media offer both benefits and risks to the health of children and teenagers. Evidence-based benefits identified from the use of digital and social media include early learning, exposure to new ideas and knowledge, increased opportunities for social contact and support, and new opportunities to access health promotion messages and information. Risks of such media include negative health effects on sleep, attention, and learning; a higher incidence of obesity and depression; exposure to inaccurate, inappropriate, or unsafe content and contacts; and compromised privacy and confidentiality. This technical report reviews the literature regarding these opportunities and risks, framed around clinical questions, for children from birth to adulthood. To promote health and wellness in children and adolescents, it is important to maintain adequate physical activity, healthy nutrition, good sleep hygiene, and a nurturing social environment. A healthy Family Media Use Plan (www.healthychildren.org/MediaUsePlan) that is individualized for a specific child, teenager, or family can identify an appropriate balance between screen time/online time and other activities, set boundaries for accessing content, guide displays of personal information, encourage age-appropriate critical thinking and digital literacy, and support open family communication and implementation of consistent rules about media use.
Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science
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- Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks for Children Online: The Role of Digital Skills in Emerging Strategies of Parental Mediation (2017, background): “…findings offer little justification for recommending authoritative mediation to parents, as discussed in relation to Table 6, even though recent research and policy has tended to urge that parents combine enabling and restrictive mediation (Blum-Ross & Livingstone, 2016; Chassiakos et al., 2016).”
- Relationship Between Screen Time and Chinese Children’s Cognitive and Social Development (2020, background): “Research that honors this distinction without using active and passive was also categorized similarly, for instance, interactive vs noninteractive (Anderson & Hanson, 2009; Choi & Kirkorian, 2016) or traditional media vs interactive media (Chassiakos et al., 2016).”
- Social Media and Fear of Missing Out in Adolescents: The Role of Family Characteristics (2020, background): “Contrary to many advantages of social media for adolescent development are also multiple disadvantages (Reid Chassiakos et al., 2016).”