A era digital e as implicações do uso dos meios meios tecnológicos para o desenvolvimento infantil

Abstract

This paper investigated the implications of digital media on child development, in a digital age, where technological devices are increasingly part of people's daily lives, and consequently, children are having contact with these devices earlier and earlier, in their first months of life. The following objective outlines the course of the research: to investigate the implications that exposure to technological devices causes in child development. And as specific objectives: to identify the risks and benefits of the use of technological devices in childhood; to study the influence of technological devices on the physical, psychological, and social development of children and the importance of their interaction with their real environment; to present the limits and possibilities for the use of screens in the child development phase. The methodology used, was based on a qualitative approach, through bibliographic resources that guide the research, through bibliographic collections in books and magazines, congress and seminar events, scientific articles, monographs and dissertations, aiming to achieve answers to the proposed objectives. With the results verified in the research, it became evident the implications regarding the time children are exposed to the use of digital media used on a daily basis. Thus, the conclusion was reached that it is up to parents and/or guardians to mediate between children and digital media, monitoring the quantity and quality of digital stimuli, preventing them from affecting their development.