The everyday media life of children
The Professor of Media Socialisation and Media Literacy at the University of Zurich heads the Institute of Psychology at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). The representative studies he supervises on the everyday media life of the young generation in Switzerland (JAMES and MIKE studies) provide the empirical basis for the - often controversial - discourse in society on the «right» way to deal with media.
Lecture from 1 September 2020 (59:49 min): «If we want to understand how children use media, we have to look at their entire everyday life,» argues the renowned media psychologist. «Because both media experiences and direct experiences can be developmentally beneficial or risky.»