Meryl Alper
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first heard Jan 2024
last heard Jan 2024
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the ways in which they are watching are physically constrained.
And so the time spent can really get them out of sorts in a way that maybe a kid who's roaming around and, you know, from a number of feet away is peripherally watching the screen, but they're able to get that get get that sensory stimulation at the same time that they're watching.
And maybe also that means that their parents
From this open spaces able to watch at the same time versus a parent, you know, in these closed cramped spaces can't view at the same time.
So the parent can't be as engaged.
So really it's like multidimensional calculus in your head thinking about this kid's watching the same thing as some other kid, but this is a vastly different background.
To what extent do their parents believe in the use of media?
as a reward for good behavior or something to be restricted, you know, as a punishment, or withheld to elicit a desired behavior.
That speaks to, I think, some different overall parenting values around reward and restriction, which is absolutely related to like culture and and one's own upbringing and stuff.
So
That is something that really came to me, but that you know the main areas that I talk about in the book are, you know, again, where are these similarities and differences?
I break it down into three main areas of cultural belonging, social relationships, and physical embodiment.
So these these three different areas, and in those, each of those has two chapters: the cultural belonging, you know, where do you belong in this world?
I have a whole chapter on identity and the role of media in identity of being neurodivergent, a whole chapter on learning, because you think about school as the main space where you learn how to
belong the rules of society and in interacting with others.
What does learning look like?
i in relation to media for these young people in terms of social relationships, one on family dynamics and parenting, one on friends and friendship.
and media in all of that.
And then in the physical embodiment part, which maybe the in those chapters, if I was doing a general ethnography of kids and media use wouldn't have maybe shown up in those books.
But one chapter just on emotions and
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