Children and Families in the Digital Age offers a fresh, nuanced, and empirically-based perspective on how families are using digital media to enhance learning, routines, and relationships. This powerful edited collection contributes to a growing body of work suggesting the importance of understanding how the consequences of digital media use are shaped by family culture, values, practices, and the larger social and economic contexts of families' lives. Chapters offer case studies, real-life examples, and analyses of large-scale national survey data, and provide insights into previously unexplored topics such as the role of siblings in shaping the home media ecology.

Elisabeth Gee is Delbert & Jewell Lewis Chair in Reading & Literacy and Professor at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, USA.

Lori M. Takeuchi is Senior Director & Research Scientist at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, USA.

Ellen Wartella is Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication and Director, Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University, USA.

1. Introduction Section 1: Child Engagement 2. Media as a Catalyst for Children's Engagement in Learning at Home and Across Settings 3. The Influence of Siblings on the Digital Media Ecology of Latino Children 4. Collecting and Connecting: Intergenerational Learning with Digital Media Section 2: Parent Engagement 5. Digital Media as a Parenting Support Tool for Hispanic Families in the United States 6. Responding to Classroom Change: How Low-Income Latino Parents View Technology's Impacts on Student Learning 7. What Makes Media Educational? Learning from Latino Parents and Children Section 3: Family Engagement, Section Editor: Amber Levinson 8. Children of Immigrants' Experiences in Online Information Brokering 9. Daddy Loves Dora and Mamma Loves Drama: Ethnic Media as Intergenerational Boundary Objects 10. Latino Immigrant Families Bridging Home and School Learning with Technology Appendix: Study Methods