{"title":"“Sometimes people on YouTube are real, but sometimes not”: Children’s understanding of the reality status of YouTube","authors":"Brenna Hassinger-Das, Rebecca A. Dore","doi":"10.1177/20427530221140679","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study describes how 3- to 8-year-olds’ justifications for their reality status judgements about people on YouTube relates to their age and previous YouTube watching experience. Using a within-subjects design, children were asked about their beliefs regarding the reality status of a purported YouTube video and provided justifications for their responses. Caregivers provided information about children’s home media use and children were asked about their favorite YouTube videos. Results suggest that increased age—and not amount of experience with YouTube—relates to a more nuanced understanding of YouTube as evidenced by a consideration of the medium in justifying reality status judgments.","PeriodicalId":39456,"journal":{"name":"E-Learning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"E-Learning","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20427530221140679","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study describes how 3- to 8-year-olds’ justifications for their reality status judgements about people on YouTube relates to their age and previous YouTube watching experience. Using a within-subjects design, children were asked about their beliefs regarding the reality status of a purported YouTube video and provided justifications for their responses. Caregivers provided information about children’s home media use and children were asked about their favorite YouTube videos. Results suggest that increased age—and not amount of experience with YouTube—relates to a more nuanced understanding of YouTube as evidenced by a consideration of the medium in justifying reality status judgments.
期刊介绍:
E-Learning and Digital Media is a peer-reviewed international journal directed towards the study and research of e-learning in its diverse aspects: pedagogical, curricular, sociological, economic, philosophical and political. This journal explores the ways that different disciplines and alternative approaches can shed light on the study of technically mediated education. Working at the intersection of theoretical psychology, sociology, history, politics and philosophy it poses new questions and offers new answers for research and practice related to digital technologies in education. The change of the title of the journal in 2010 from E-Learning to E-Learning and Digital Media is expressive of this new and emphatically interdisciplinary orientation, and also reflects the fact that technologically-mediated education needs to be located within the political economy and informational ecology of changing mediatic forms.