Vikki Katz
I explore how immigrant parents and their children develop individual and collective strategies to address challenges related to U.S. social incorporation, including:
(a) how children of immigrants broker language, cultural norms and knowledge, and media for their families at home, in schools, in social services and in healthcare facilities;
(b) how broadband and technology adoption influence family information-seeking and learning activities;
(c) how ethnic media, as part of a families' media environment, affect efforts toward social incorporation; and
(d) how families with immigrant and native-born parentage manage their interactions in Family Court.
For more information, see: www.vikkikatz.com
(a) how children of immigrants broker language, cultural norms and knowledge, and media for their families at home, in schools, in social services and in healthcare facilities;
(b) how broadband and technology adoption influence family information-seeking and learning activities;
(c) how ethnic media, as part of a families' media environment, affect efforts toward social incorporation; and
(d) how families with immigrant and native-born parentage manage their interactions in Family Court.
For more information, see: www.vikkikatz.com
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I will also argue that scholars need to consider digital inequality in context of social relationships, not as individualized experiences. In the case of children, family context is especially crucial to how digital inequality is experienced. Children’s constrained access to technology is never entirely independent; after all, they rely on parents to purchase devices, prioritize monthly payments for internet access, or get them to libraries if the family doesn’t have internet at home. Less obviously, children depend on parents and siblings as sources of support for learning with technology. As a result, family interactions are fundamental to understanding digital inequalities among children, and to identifying potential pathways for resolving these social disparities.
connection quality and its outcomes for under-connected
individuals, and parental mediation, which focuses on the
influence of parents on children’s technology experiences. We
examine the internet connection type used by families, the
technology experiences of lower-income parents, and their
perceptions of opportunities that technology use offers their
children. We then determine how these factors influence the
frequency and scope of their school-age children’s technology
use. Findings show that contextualizing children’s connectivity to
account for infrastructural, socio-demographic, and relational
influences provides new insights into the technology experiences
of lower-income children. One set of findings suggests that direct
benefit from increased connectivity is most evident for lowerincome
parents – those with the lowest household incomes,
lowest levels of education, and whose dominant language is not
English. These effects remain after controlling for other sociodemographic
factors. The second set of results shows that greater
connectivity increases how frequently both children and parents
use the internet, but is associated only with a greater scope of
internet activities for parents. Parents’ online activity scope is
important for their children’s online experiences, directly
predicting the scope of their online activities. High-scope parents
were also significantly more likely to see digital opportunities in
their children’s internet use, which in turn also predicted more
frequent and broader internet use by their children. We conclude
by considering the practical implications of these findings for
digital equity initiatives targeting lower-income families.
I will also argue that scholars need to consider digital inequality in context of social relationships, not as individualized experiences. In the case of children, family context is especially crucial to how digital inequality is experienced. Children’s constrained access to technology is never entirely independent; after all, they rely on parents to purchase devices, prioritize monthly payments for internet access, or get them to libraries if the family doesn’t have internet at home. Less obviously, children depend on parents and siblings as sources of support for learning with technology. As a result, family interactions are fundamental to understanding digital inequalities among children, and to identifying potential pathways for resolving these social disparities.
connection quality and its outcomes for under-connected
individuals, and parental mediation, which focuses on the
influence of parents on children’s technology experiences. We
examine the internet connection type used by families, the
technology experiences of lower-income parents, and their
perceptions of opportunities that technology use offers their
children. We then determine how these factors influence the
frequency and scope of their school-age children’s technology
use. Findings show that contextualizing children’s connectivity to
account for infrastructural, socio-demographic, and relational
influences provides new insights into the technology experiences
of lower-income children. One set of findings suggests that direct
benefit from increased connectivity is most evident for lowerincome
parents – those with the lowest household incomes,
lowest levels of education, and whose dominant language is not
English. These effects remain after controlling for other sociodemographic
factors. The second set of results shows that greater
connectivity increases how frequently both children and parents
use the internet, but is associated only with a greater scope of
internet activities for parents. Parents’ online activity scope is
important for their children’s online experiences, directly
predicting the scope of their online activities. High-scope parents
were also significantly more likely to see digital opportunities in
their children’s internet use, which in turn also predicted more
frequent and broader internet use by their children. We conclude
by considering the practical implications of these findings for
digital equity initiatives targeting lower-income families.