Parental mediation in children's use of social media sites and its relationship to their attitudes towards these sites

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Assistant Professor – Faculty of Arts – Mass communication department – Mansoura University

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the parental mediation and how it effects the child’s usage of social media and his attitude towards it.
 The study employs descriptive method to diagnose relationships between variables.
The paper harnesses the theoretical background of parental mediation approach.
the main results concluded by this study included that the parents themselves use social media in a relatively limited amount of time not more than 10 hours a week , and that many parents deploy a certain amount of restrictions on their children’s usage of social media in regards of how many hours and the types of sites that they use. 

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