Meryl Alper
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first heard Jan 2024
last heard Jan 2024
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The ways that media plays a role in emotional, not just regulation or managing emotions, but understanding what emotions are, recognizing them in others, the ways that media can affect emotions and emotional development, and then a whole chapter on the senses and sensory development and thinking about media.
as sensory relief, as sensory stressor, and all these different ways in which when we me say the senses, what do we even mean by that?
Yeah, so I should say the age range that I was focused on for this book, and I can talk a little bit later about what my newer work is, but you know, I was focused on three to thirteen.
So when we talk about media and technology, the extent to which these kids are
online and networked is quite different than thinking about the sort of 14 and up group.
So thinking about identity or community or belonging through media and technology.
A lot of this is mass media.
A lot of this is what do you read in books?
What do you see on TV or in movies?
And yes, also
What communities are you a part of through your gaming or through some of these other kind of ways in which kids can be online and in a way that is accessible to you?
So I think that was not a surprise, but reading a lot about identity and kids in media, that a lot of it does go more into the kind of networked side of things.
But important to keep in mind for this group, yes, you absolutely the ways in which for some of
These kids, the platform Scratch, which is MIT moderated kind of community for kids to learn how to code and to develop games.
And it's also, I think it's a very positive in terms of I'm not kind to some other platforms in this book, but as a space that is moderated and is regulated, and kids are able to connect with other kids who maybe have a form of kind of a difference and they can find one another in this way, but it's they're centered around.
creation.
Yeah, that that can be a fantastic space for kids to express who they are.
and the ways in which their understanding of their neurodivergence might not come out in the ways that an adult might
frame it or describe it, but coming out
relative to how they consume content or their preferences for creativity or the kinds of characters that they are drawn to in fiction and maybe creating a game around that or a a digital creation or something.
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