📢 New publication from our team!
🎮 Children's contextualised digital play drivers and subjective well-being

Our latest journal article has just been published and can be read Open Access now via New Media and Society 🎉

🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#DigitalPlay #DigitalChildhoods

“We should get more of these”
What, flannels?
“Yes, they’re so good. I didn’t know they’d be so good”

5-y-o over the moon about her first flannel

This morning’s reasons-I-know-my-child-is-my-child: (sees a horse) “I want to marry that horse” (imagines future crisps) “I’ll just reach in with both hands and OM NOM NOM”

4-y-o jokes:
Q: Where does a bear go when he’s hungry?
A: He eats your glasses.

Just found out that my 4-y-o’s class has a class teddy called ‘Huglas Douglas’ and a scary world is a tiny bit better #huglasdouglas #earlyyears

Children playing video games have raised various concerns over the years, but @fionascott.bsky.social and her team’s research show that the right digital play can be beneficial to children’s wellbeing.

Read more in her @uk.theconversation.com piece:
theconversation.com/how-video-ga...

What was it like becoming a parent for the first time during a global pandemic? Read our findings, based on over 300 individual accounts, open access in BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth doi.org/10.1186/s128... #parenting #pandemic #digitalliteracies

Folks from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social are slowly turning up here, so here's a smallish starter pack for now, but as new folks from the Centre arrive, ping me & I can add you:

go.bsky.app/8RES29o

I spoke to ABC News (Australia) and the BBC News Channel yesterday on the passing of Australia's #SocialMediaBan Echoing many Digital Child colleagues, a regrettable step in terms of children and young people's rights and well-being. Let's hope enforcement is nuanced. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Now the U16s Ban is legislated, @cameronwilson.bsky.social is right, the hard part begins: we know the Bill actually could cause harms, so the next year is about trying to minimise the damage & leverage the public support for real changes like a duty of care.(1/2)

www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/29/t...

Delighted to see this toolbox from the amazing RITEC project @fionascott.bsky.social has been launched to support game design professionals creating digital play experiences for children! What a great project to have been a part of!
www.sheffield.ac.uk/social-scien...