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Description:: The experiences and environments of working-class children vary dramatically from their more affluent peers. I update Bronfenbrenner’s (1986) ecological systems theory to account for the technology children interact with and child social class, using Lareau’s (2003) frameworks that establish class differences in parenting practices. I position child technology devices at...
Keyword:: technology, occupation, working class, aspirations, home, and children
Subject:: Social research and Communication
Creator:: Hightower, Brianna
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_759910 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15212

Description:: Children are known to be curious and persistent question-askers. The pervasiveness of voice interfaces represents an opportunity for children who are still learning to read and write to independently search the Internet by directing questions at conversational agents such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and the Google Assistant. However, little...
Keyword:: question-asking, voice assistants, conversational agents, and children
Subject:: Information science, Developmental psychology, and Communication
Creator:: Lovato, Silvia B
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_662479 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14643

Description:: This dissertation asks how deepening global inequalities reshape the ways families negotiate “economic moralities,” normative expectations of material obligation and entitlement. It focuses on the families of middle class migrants: French-educated Senegalese urbanites whose diplomas no longer protect them from discrimination in Paris but who, among Africans, are still construed...
Keyword:: transnational families, France, food sharing, Senegal, children, and migration
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Chelsie Jeannette Yount-Andre
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2018
Date Modified:: 04/09/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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