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IRIS SHACHAR-LAVIE DIGITAL NATIVES: NVR , INTERNET USE AND OVERUSE

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Page 1: Digital Natives: NVR , internet use and overuse Natives... · 2012. 5. 8. · March 2012 Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie LECTURE HIGHLIGHTS: 1. Challenges

I R I S S H A C H A R - L A V I E

DIGITAL NATIVES: NVR , INTERNET USE AND OVERUSE

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

LECTURE HIGHLIGHTS:

1. Challenges to parental authority in the

digital age and the New Authority theory:

Digital Natives and Immigrants

2. An NVR intervention program for computer

overuse (‘internet addiction’)

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

DIGITAL NATIVES – THE CONCEPT:

• A new, “born digital” generation*:

• Communication patterns & Relationships

• Cognitive skills

• Private VS. Public

• Who are the digital immigrants?

3 * Palfrey, John; Gasser, Urs (2008). Born Digital:

Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. Basic

Books

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION:

2000

350 Million (internet users)

2002

550 Million

2004

800 Million

2006

1,000 Million

2008

1,500 Million

2010

2,000 Million

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS – THE CONCEPT:

• The new family paradigm –

a. Children are the parents’ link to the digital culture

b. Physical proximity vs. cultural distance

c. Emerging technological means to supervise and control, raise important questions regarding parental monitoring

practices

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

CHALLENGES TO PARENTAL AUTHORITY:

Knowledge

Privacy

The “Media Tsunami”

Where to draw the parental line? 6

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS: KNOWLEDGE

• Can I supervise without the technological

knowledge? Will I be embarrassed by my lack of

knowledge?

• New Authority's reply: Knowledge is no longer the

basis for Authority…. This is emphasized by the

internet more than ever!

Helping parents accompany their children in

cyberspace without the technological know how.

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS: PRIVACY

• Should I spy? Use spy software? Are the child’s

correspondences private at all time?

• New Authority's reply: Vigilant care is visible to the

child. It announces its presence. The internet makes

it impossible to rely on spying anyway…

Helping parents make the transition from supervising

through technology to a parental involvement

about technology use.

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS:

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*(Lemish & Reevak, 2008)

86%

68% 64%

71%

65% 61%

30%

18% 22%

27% 30%

10%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

asks the child

what is he doing

looks at the

screen every

now and then

helps the childsurf the net

togtether with

the child

stays in the

same room

gets angry

about the child's

internet use

What does the parent do when the child uses the internet*?

Parent

Child

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS: “MEDIA TSUNAMI”

• How can I control and block unwanted content

and negative effects of the media?

• New Authority's reply: To protect from such powerful

forces, the ‘anchoring function’ becomes even

more salient.

Helping parents feel the legitimacy and necessity to

anchor themselves in a parental stance regarding

internet use.

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS: WHAT IS ‘NORMAL’ INTERNET USE?

• How many hours of internet use are ‘too much’? Is

the internet damaging? Do computer games

encourage violence?

Will I EVER know???

• New Authority's reply: A parental action or a dialog

is more important than the answers to the questions

above. Trying to answer them may lead to a

paralyzing uncertainty

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

INTERNET ADDICTION

• Diagnosis controversy: Is this a disorder in its own

right?

• Beyond the controversy- Parental distress… For our

purposes we designed an intervention without

referring to internet addiction – but rather to the parental distress arising from the child’s internet use.

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

INTERNET ADDICTION NVR INTERVENTION

13

Functional impairment:

• Sleep

• School

• Family conflict

• Family activities

• Social

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

COMPUTER OVERUSE: THE INTERVENTION STRUCTURE

• Initial screening via the phone

• A single meeting at the parents home (1.5 hour), only

the parents were present.

• Leaving a comprehensive booklet on ‘vigilant care’

principles and practical tools.

• 2-6 successive phone calls: support and

maintenance of the tools. Each conversation was

followed by a summarizing e-mail.

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

COMPUTER OVERUSE: INTERVENTIONS’ PRINCIPLES

Raising legitimacy: for parental involvement and action

Reducing demonization of the internet

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

COMPUTER OVERUSE: INTERVENTIONS’ PRINCIPLES

• Vigilant Care – adapting the open dialog and

focused questioning to internet use.

• Non violent reduction of “computer time” – as

opposed to complete elimination (Or – how to non

violently turn off the computer).

• Using NVR tools to reinstate “lost activities” (school

attendance).

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

COMPUTER OVERUSE: STUDY METHODOLOGY

• 30 families [children’s mean age=12.42 (2.1)]

• Parents answered self report questionnaires during 3

stages:

1. Screening

2. After a 3-week waiting period

3. 3-weeks after the intervention.

We expected NO difference between time 1 and 2,

and a difference between time 2 and 3.

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

COMPUTER OVERUSE – STUDY'S RESULTS: CHILD’S DYSFUNCTION

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

4

4.5

Time 1 Time 2 Time 3

Child's Functional

Impairment

** T(1,27)=4.894, P<0.01

**

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

COMPUTER OVERUSE – STUDY’S RESULTS: VIGILANT CARE A

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.5

3.6

3.7

3.8

3.9

4

4.1

time 1 time 2 time 3

How much does the

parent know?

** T(1,27)=5.283 , P<0.01

**

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

COMPUTER OVERUSE – STUDY’S RESULTS: VIGILANT CARE B

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.4

5.5

5.6

5.7

5.8

5.9

6

time 1 time 2 time 3

parenal supervision

("vigilan care")

**

** T(1,27)=3.244, P<0.01

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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants Iris Shachar - Lavie March 2012

DIGITAL NATIVES & IMMIGRANTS – SUMMATION:

• The ‘internet age’ introduces changes in the family

• Parental presence, involvement and supervision in

the child’s media life is crucial –

a challenge that can be met!

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I R I S SHACHAR LAVIE // I R I SSHACHAR@GMAIL .COM