Technology's Child: Digital Media’s Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up

by Katie Davis

How children engage with technology at each stage of development, from toddler to twentysomething, and how they can best be supported.

Children’s experiences with technology—their “screen time” and digital social relationships—have become an inescapable aspect of growing up. This book, for the first time, identifies the qualitative distinctions between different ages and stages of this engagement, and offers invaluable guidance for parents and teachers navigating the digital landscape, and for technology designers charting the way.

Katie beautifully uses simple language, common sense and positive attitude to offer significant research, actionable insights and memorable guidelines—so important in the often-confusing landscape of research and media messages about kids and technology.