Promoting the Co-Viewing of YouTube Videos with Parents of School-Aged Children
Mentor 1
W. Hobart Davies
Location
Union Wisconsin Room
Start Date
5-4-2019 1:30 PM
End Date
5-4-2019 3:30 PM
Description
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), in their 2016 media use guidelines, encourages parents to co-view media with their children. The AAP defines co-viewing as "engaging in selecting media with your child, through which your child can use media to learn and be creative". Previous literature indicates that parents have been using some form of co-viewing with their children for traditional books, television, and online storybooks. Co-viewing research looking specifically at YouTube Kids is important to add to the discussion as the current algorithm has allowed for disturbing and inappropriate videos featuring well known kids' characters to be accidentally viewed. The aim of the current study is to evaluate whether a brief parent-child intervention is effective in making the co-viewing experience more valuable in keeping with the AAP guidelines. Additionally, it is hypothesized that parents will be more confident in co-viewing YouTube with their children, decrease their worries about their child finding inappropriate videos and increase the amount of time they co-view YouTube after the intervention. Thirty parents with children between the ages of 6 and 12 will be asked to co-view YouTube Kids for at least 15 minutes every day for five days. After a pre-survey, parents will fill out daily diaries with prompted questions each day they co-view. A post-survey and one month follow up will also be given to see the effect of the intervention. Data analysis will consist of demographic data as well as the use of the Delphi coding Method for the qualitative responses. These findings will mainly be used to help bring more awareness to this issue as well as to help parents be successful in co-viewing with their children.
Promoting the Co-Viewing of YouTube Videos with Parents of School-Aged Children
Union Wisconsin Room
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), in their 2016 media use guidelines, encourages parents to co-view media with their children. The AAP defines co-viewing as "engaging in selecting media with your child, through which your child can use media to learn and be creative". Previous literature indicates that parents have been using some form of co-viewing with their children for traditional books, television, and online storybooks. Co-viewing research looking specifically at YouTube Kids is important to add to the discussion as the current algorithm has allowed for disturbing and inappropriate videos featuring well known kids' characters to be accidentally viewed. The aim of the current study is to evaluate whether a brief parent-child intervention is effective in making the co-viewing experience more valuable in keeping with the AAP guidelines. Additionally, it is hypothesized that parents will be more confident in co-viewing YouTube with their children, decrease their worries about their child finding inappropriate videos and increase the amount of time they co-view YouTube after the intervention. Thirty parents with children between the ages of 6 and 12 will be asked to co-view YouTube Kids for at least 15 minutes every day for five days. After a pre-survey, parents will fill out daily diaries with prompted questions each day they co-view. A post-survey and one month follow up will also be given to see the effect of the intervention. Data analysis will consist of demographic data as well as the use of the Delphi coding Method for the qualitative responses. These findings will mainly be used to help bring more awareness to this issue as well as to help parents be successful in co-viewing with their children.
