Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts by Tarik Sabry & Nisrine Mansour

Author:Tarik Sabry & Nisrine Mansour
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030043216
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Temporalities, Spatialities, and the Elusiveness of Average Media Use

As we moved across the three sites, we initially designed the research to account for a seasonal dichotomy between winter/school time and summer/vacation time. Stretching over three consecutive summers between 2013 and 2015, the fieldwork intended to reflect children’s availability out of the school calendar with the aim to optimise the capture of their unrestricted use of the media.

For children, summer equated freedom from school. The school calendar months were the heaviest period of the year for both children and parents. Children’s time and energy (as well as their parents’) were effectively taken up by the school during the day and homework in the evenings. In most cases, parents were diligent in monitoring their children’s homework, leaving them with hardly any time to use the media. They restricted their leisure time, including media time, to a minimum, usually amounting to one or two hours of media use per day. Yet, the assumptions around the summer/winter divide in media use were challenged when we looked in detail into children’s summer schedules.

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