{"id":17532,"date":"2017-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2017\/09\/05\/level-up-refreshing-parental-mediation-theory-for-our-digital-media-landscape\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T08:51:14","slug":"level-up-refreshing-parental-mediation-theory-for-our-digital-media-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2017\/09\/05\/level-up-refreshing-parental-mediation-theory-for-our-digital-media-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Level Up! Refreshing Parental Mediation Theory for Our Digital Media Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17533\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17533\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Videogaming-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Videogaming-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Videogaming-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Videogaming-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Videogaming.jpg 1379w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credits: “Videogaming” from SRN’s SG Photobank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How can parents effectively guide their children\u2019s video game play?<\/p>\n<p>The September school holidays are a mixed blessing for students and parents. Providing a reprieve from the school routine, these holidays are considered \u2018crunch-time\u2019 for revision because they immediately precede year-end examinations. Hence, students try to balance the three \u2018R\u2019s \u2013 rest, recreation, and revision \u2013 and parents strive to support them.<\/p>\n<p>As videogames become more popular among young Singaporeans, how do parents manage their children\u2019s videogame play? Jiow, Lim, and Lin studied 41 parent-child pairs with children aged 12 to 17, to understand approaches parents take to mediate children\u2019s game play. They found parents appreciate that children need a respite from academic pursuits, and recognise that children want to play videogames. They identified four kinds of activities parents undertake to guide children\u2019s video game play: gatekeeping, discursive, investigative, and diversionary activities.<\/p>\n<p>Gatekeeping activities refer to parents regulating children\u2019s exposure to videogaming by imposing rules and restrictions. Discursive activities are dialogues that enable parents and children to share perspectives on various aspects of videogames, where parents air concerns while inculcating values and proffering advice on managing the negative aspects of videogames. Investigative activities refer to monitoring children\u2019s game play, seeking more information about the benefits and adverse effects of games, and even playing with children to experience the games for themselves. Diversionary activities refers to parents\u2019 efforts to steer children towards healthier, more beneficial alternatives including sports, tuition, and playing musical instruments.<br \/>\nThe authors conclude that with the complexity of young people\u2019s prevailing media landscape, parents must and do undertake a dynamic combination of these activities to effectively guide their children\u2019s videogame play.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/\u2026\/10.1111\/comt.12109\/abstract\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can parents effectively guide their children\u2019s video game play? The September school holidays are a mixed blessing for students and parents. Providing a reprieve from the school routine, these holidays are considered \u2018crunch-time\u2019 for revision because they immediately precede year-end examinations. Hence, students try to balance the three \u2018R\u2019s \u2013 rest, recreation, and revision …<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2017\/09\/05\/level-up-refreshing-parental-mediation-theory-for-our-digital-media-landscape\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Level Up! Refreshing Parental Mediation Theory for Our Digital Media Landscape<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":17533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4539,4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications-and-new-media","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28119,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17532\/revisions\/28119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}