Cognitive development in digital contexts

« Cognitive Development in Digital Contexts investigates the impact of screen media on key aspects of children and adolescents’ cognitive development. Highlighting how screen media impact cognitive development, the book addresses a topic often neglected amid societal concerns about pathological media use and vulnerability to media effects, such as aggression, cyber-bullying and Internet addiction. It addresses children and adolescents’ cognitive development involving their interactions with parents, early language development, imaginary play, attention, memory, and executive control, literacy and academic performance. »--

1. Screen media and the youngest viewers: implications for attention and learning -- 2. Early digital literacy: learning to watch, watching to learn -- 3. The effects of parent-child interaction and media use on cognitive development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers -- 4. Plugging into world learning: the role of electronic toys and digital media in language development -- 5. Parasocial relationships with media characters: imaginary companions for young children's social and cognitive development -- 6. Young mids on video games -- 7. Playing with virtual blocks: Minecraft as a learning environment for practice and research -- 8. The impact of digital media on executive planning and performance in children, adolescents, and emerging adults -- 9. Immersive virtual reality and the developing child -- 10. Digital childhoods and literacy development: is textspeak of special case of an "efficient orthography"? -- 11. Bridging theory and practice: applying cognitive and educational theory to the design of educational media -- 12. Understanding the technical and social complexity of the internet: a cognitive developmental resource perspective -- 13. Measuring the digital and media l…