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Parental Verbal Mediation For Children's Internet Use, Daeun Grace Lee Dec 2018

Parental Verbal Mediation For Children's Internet Use, Daeun Grace Lee

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This study explores the different communication strategies parents employ when speaking to their children about their Internet use. The Internet is continuously and rapidly expanding in terms of content range and mobility, and is becoming more and more an integrated and essential part of children across the nation. Thus, parents must be willing and equipped to educate their children about their habits of Internet use through effective mediation strategies. The goal of this study is to understand not only how parents speak to their children about their Internet use, but also how parents currently perceive the significance of these conversations. …