What is it about?
How concerned are parents about their children's activity in the digital environment? What are the strategies that parents take? What are the factors that influence their strategies? Taking a cue from theory of ecology of fear in biology this project takes an anthropological and human-computer interaction approach to these questions.
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Why is it important?
This research shows that theory from evolutionary biology can help us understand the dynamics of parental decisions regarding their childrens' digital life. The research advances our knowledge of the growing role of the digital ecology in childrearing in North America.
Perspectives
Middle childhood 6-12 is characterized by the building of relationships beyond the family. The digital environment adds novel features and functions to this process of relationship building. What are the costs? Do they outweigh the benefits? These questions are being addressed on this interdisciplinary research project at Boise State University.
Professor John P Ziker
Boise State University
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This page is a summary of: Evolutionary Perspectives on Novel Digital Environments: Parental Strategies in the Ecology of Fear, June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3585088.3593878.
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