Provost Luncheon - Parenting in the Digital Age

How are parents in the U.S. coping with the new challenges of digital and mobile media? In this presentation, Dr. Lynn Schofield Clark reviews research that is featured in her 2012 book, The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age. The presentation explores what is "new" about new media and explores the questions: how are uses of mobile phones, tablets, and other new media presenting new dilemmas for parents and their children, how might they be deepening divisions in a country that has prided itself on equal opportunities, and how might we respond collectively as a result?