A Day in the Digital Lives of Children Aged 0-3. Full report. Working Group 1: Digital Literacy in Homes and Communities

Gillen, Julia, Matsumoto, Mitsuko, Aliagas, Cristina, Bar-lev, Yehuda, Clark, Alison, Flewitt, Rosie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1986-0644, Jorge, Ana, Kumpulainen, Kristiina, Marsh, Jackie, Morgade, Marta, Pacheco, Raquel, Poveda, David, Sairanen, Heidi, Sandberg, Helena, Scott, Fiona, Sjöberg, Ulrika, Sundin, Ebba, Tigane, Ilham and Tomé, Vitor (2019) A Day in the Digital Lives of Children Aged 0-3. Full report. Working Group 1: Digital Literacy in Homes and Communities. Project Report. DigiLitEY ISCH COST Action 1410. ISBN 9780902831537

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Abstract

The ‘A Day in the Digital Lives of Children aged 0–3’ project investigated the ways in which digital technologies inform the lives of very young children and their families. Our literature reviews (Kumpulainen & Gillen, in production; 2017) have shown that this is an underexplored area, although of growing significance. This report summarises the work carried out by researchers as part of the research of DigiLitEY Working Group 1 ‘Digital Literacy in Homes and Communities’. We implemented a highly participatory and intensive research methodology with 13 families, with the focus on one child in each family. The focal children, eight girls and five boys, were aged between nine months and 34 months at the time of the visits. Families were recruited from Finland (1), Israel (1), Portugal (3), Spain (2), Sweden (2) and UK (4). The research methodology was mainly a qualitative case study approach: ‘Day in the Life’ (DITL) (Gillen et al., 2007; Gillen & Cameron, 2010) - using a combination of interviews, observational f ield notes and video recordings to collect data - with the focus being on one day in the life of the child and their family. Additionally, we collected comparable quantitative data in the form of inventories, such as, inventories of technologies available in the home.