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An Inquiry into Young Children's Multimodal Media Practices

An Inquiry into Young Children's Multimodal Media Practices
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Author(s): An Chih Cheng (DePaul University, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 15
Source title: Educational Stages and Interactive Learning: From Kindergarten to Workplace Training
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jiyou Jia (Peking University, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0137-6.ch009

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Abstract

This chapter explores young children’s interactive and authoring experience with digital media, such as smartphones, digital cameras, and touch-screen computers, in an informal learning environment. A visual ethnographic approach was undertaken in order to understand the social and multi-dimensional nature of media experience. The results indicate that children acquire digital media literacy at a very young age; that children’s competency in digital media can be considered as a valuable form of cultural capital; and that children’s digital media practices reflect their personal and family histories as well as broader social ideology.

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