• Deepika

Many children these days have access to a multitude of digital items from a very tender age. They also rapidly pick up skills in these items’ use. Devices commonly accessed by young children include large and small screens, keyboards and control functions for mobile phones, laptops, tablets, televisions and desktop computers. The digital environment was conceived as an environment for adult users. Not even its inventors thought it might one day be a place where childhood would be spent. Nor did they make any design concessions for child users. On the contrary, the utopian vision was that all users would be equal. And if all users are equal, then a child user is treated as if they were an adult. Children’s wellbeing in digital environment is of no less importance than their wellbeing in any other setting. Digital environment is man and woman made technology and can therefore be designed according to the needs of children and young people to meet their developing milestones. So far, however, it has failed to adapt to children’s need. Therefore the objective of this research paper is to understand the concern of digital media for children (age group 3-10years) in the terms of how the child’s behavior and acedemics are getting affected.

digital media, digital environment, childhood

"UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL MEDIA ON CHILDHOOD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no.459-465, February-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002069.pdf

"UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL MEDIA ON CHILDHOOD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no. pp459-465, February-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002069.pdf