Infância, mídia e tecnologias digitais : a percepção dos pais sobre o uso dos telefones celulares pelas crianças.

Abstract

In recent years there has been a considerable increase in the use of mobile phones by children. And one of the factors contributing to this increase are the creations and developing new and increasingly attractive handset applications. In order to obtain data on as has happened this usage by children, we seek through the parents, understand what are their perceptions regarding the use of the mobile device for your children, and how this has happened. The methodology used in this research was qualitative and descriptive, and as an instrument of data collection was used to open questionnaire technique, sample, twenty (20) parents of children under the age of ten (10) years, all students at the same school, who had access to or that have your own cell phone. Data were analyzed from the content Analysis proposed by Bardin (1977), and subsequently categorized. We found intermediate categories, described as follows: using the mobile device as a way to discipline the behavior of children, the use of the mobile device from the relationship of trust and dialogue, the concerns of parents about the time of use, and little time not showing changes in behavior, and the use of the mobile device as beneficial for being a current technology. All these categories, gave rise to 2 (two) categories finals, which were: the use of the mobile device as a form of parental control over the children, and the use of the mobile device seen as beneficial. Through this research, we realized that the parents understand the use of the mobile device as something beneficial, not showing concerns about the content accessed through the applications of this device, using this device as a means of control over their children.