Families' strategies for regulating children's access to digital content

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College of Communication and Media, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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Within the framework of the media gatekeeper theory, the study sought to reveal the methods and strategies that Saudi families follow to regulate their children’s access to digital content in order to limit or reduce the negative impact of what is presented through it. The study found that the high percentage of children’s use of digital content and their ownership of smart devices coincides with the high level of awareness among parents about the dangers facing children as a result of exposure, and as a result of this awareness, parents guarded the digital portal and activate various strategies in order to make the child safer from during their communication through smart devices with the outside world, the study recommends conducting future studies concerned with the effectiveness of these restrictions and the extent of general satisfaction among children and their conviction in them and the relationship of the impact of age, gender and self-control of the child to the extent to which restrictive strategies are followed to access, in addition to conducting studies concerned with analyzing the various contents directed to children .
Note: The term “fathers” was used in abundance during the study in reference to both parents, i.e. mother and father without differentiation, but in some places the terms “fathers and mothers” were mentioned and in this case it is intended to differentiate between the different roles of mother and father.
 

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