Bookedited by Fran C. Blumberg, Patricia J. Brooks.
Summary: Cognitive Development in Digital Contexts investigates the impact of screen media on key aspects of children and adolescents' cognitive development. Highlighting how screen media impact cognitive development, the book addresses a topic often neglected amid societal concerns about pathological media use and vulnerability to media effects, such as aggression, cyber-bullying and Internet addiction. It addresses children and adolescents' cognitive development involving their interactions with parents, early language development, imaginary play, attention, memory, and executive control, literacy and academic performance.
Contents:
1. Screen media and the youngest viewers: implications for attention and learning
2. Early digital literacy: learning to watch, watching to learn
3. The effects of parent-child interaction and media use on cognitive development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers-- 4. Plugging into world learning: the role of electronic toys and digital media in language development
5. Parasocial relationships with media characters: imaginary companions for young children's social and cognitive development
6. Young mids on video games
7. Playing with virtual blocks: Minecraft as a learning environment for practice and research
8. The impact of digital media on executive planning and performance in children, adolescents, and emerging adults
9. Immersive virtual reality and the developing child
10. Digital childhoods and literacy development: is textspeak of special case of an "efficient orthography"?
11. Bridging theory and practice: applying cognitive and educational theory to the design of educational media
12. Understanding the technical and social complexity of the internet: a cognitive developmental resource perspective
13. Measuring the digital and media literacy competencies of children and teens
14. Risks, opportunities, and risky opportunities: how children make sense of the online environment
15. Children's learning in a mobile media environment: policies, practices, and possibilities
16. How parents mediate children's media consumption
Index.