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The Impact of Home Literacy and Family Factors on Screen Media Use Among Dutch Preteens
This study examined preteens’ screen media use and potential differences in media use by child and family demographics among 1464 Dutch preteens. The results demonstrated that watching TV is still a very popular activity among children. However, other electronic media are also popular within this age group as 72 % of preteens had a cellphone. Children who spoke a language other than Dutch and whose parents were born abroad were heavier media users. Children with more books in the home and who read more frequently tended to be lighter media users. Boys spent more time on screen media than girls and were more likely to play videogames while girls preferred using social media. This study demonstrated that child and home characteristics play a significant role in children’s engagement with screen media and literacy
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Who Girls and Boys Are: Gender Nonconformity in Middle-Grade Fiction
In this article I use four middle-grade novels to query the relationship between gendered forms of childhood and gender nonconformity in tweens. For the young characters in these novels, objects and spaces of gender enfranchisement–including gendered forms of childhood–are often out of reach. Using conceptual tools such as the orientation of objects, queer futures, and the transgender gaze, this work examines the ways in which these novels narrate their main characters' yearning for things that will make their gender identities legible, and how they, as agentic subjects, attempt to take revenge on the rules and structures of gender normativity.
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Girl Talk
\"Puberty is an awkward stage. And it's even harder for tween girls and parents to talk about. With that in mind, KidsHealth, a Web site for children's health and development information, launched 'The Pink Locker Society,' a new novel and Web site (www. pinklockersociety.org) for tween girls that provides sought-after puberty information within a fictional storyline and plot. ...Check out an excerpt from the book and a few bits of advice from the PLS.\" (KidsHealth)
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