Effects of new and old media on young children’s language acquisition, development, and early literacy : findings from a longitudinal study of Australian children Rutherford, Leonie, Bittman, Michael and Brown, Judith 2012, Effects of new and old media on young children’s language acquisition, development, and early literacy : findings from a longitudinal study of Australian children, in ICA 2012 : Communication and Community : Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, International Communications Association, [Phoenix, Ariz.], pp. 1-19. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads rutherford-effects-2012.pdf Published version application/pdf 214.75KB 272 Title Effects of new and old media on young children’s language acquisition, development, and early literacy : findings from a longitudinal study of Australian children Author(s) Rutherford, Leonie orcid.org/0000-0003-3940-3379 Bittman, Michael Brown, Judith Conference name International Communication Association. Conference (62nd : 2012 : Phoenix, Arizona) Conference location Phoenix, Ariz. Conference dates 24-28 May. 2012 Title of proceedings ICA 2012 : Communication and Community : Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association Editor(s) [unknown] Publication date 2012 Conference series International Communication Association Conference Start page 1 End page 19 Total pages 19 Publisher International Communications Association Place of publication [Phoenix, Ariz.] Keyword(s) new media old media language acquisition lieracy Summary The current generation of young children has been described as “digital natives”, having been born into a ubiquitous digital media environment. They are envisaged as educationally independent of the guided interaction provided by “digital immigrants”: parents and teachers. This paper uses data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) to study children’s (aged 0-8 years) development of vocabulary and traditional literacy; access to digital devices; parental mediation practices; the child’s use of digital devices as recorded in time-diaries and, finally, the association between patterns of media use and family contexts on children’s learning. The analysis shows the importance of the parental context framing media use in acquisition of vocabulary, and suggests that computer (but not games) use is associated with more developed language skills. Independently of these factors raw exposure to television is not harmful to learning. Language eng Field of Research 190204 Film and Television Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed HERDC collection year 2012 Copyright notice ©2012, The Authors Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30051901 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Sun, 14 Apr 2013, 11:34:55 EST Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 11:47:42 EST Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 09:06:58 EST Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 13:07:50 EST Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 08:22:12 EST Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 09:01:13 EST Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 09:22:16 EST Wed, 13 Nov 2013, 10:03:28 EST Mon, 18 Nov 2013, 10:22:15 EST Wed, 29 Jan 2014, 10:14:59 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 12:40:12 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 16:27:59 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 866 Abstract Views, 277 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Sun, 14 Apr 2013, 11:34:32 EST by Leonie Rutherford