Children and Adolescents in the Era of SmartScreens: Risks, Threats and Opportunities Reloaded

Children and adolescents increasingly turn to mobile media devices and SmartScreen’s, the Smartphone in particular – at home, at school or on the move-, to stay connected with family and friends, for schooling activities and to access a variety of digital media contents and services including social media, music, videos, and games. The everytime-and-everywhere-access to mobile media has changed children’s and adolescents’ everyday life with potential implications on their -from a broad perspective- socialization, consumer patterns, schooling orientated behaviour among others. This conference wants to address these issues both from a theoretical and methodological perspective.