Managing Media Ecologies: Relationships Between ChildrenÂ’s Media Usage, Rebellious Behavior and Parental Regulation (Top Student Paper).

This paper uses the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 2004 “Kids and Media II” survey to investigate three relationships associated with families-as-organizations, children’s behavior and parents media regulation: (i) how children’s offline subversive behaviors (rule-breaking or rebelliousness not associated with media usage) relate to their media-associated subversive behaviors; (ii) how parental regulations used to control children’s media usage relate to children’s media-associated subversive behaviors; and (iii) how parental regulations used to control children’s media usage relate to children’s “offline” subversive behaviors (rule-breaking or rebelliousness not associated with media usage). The analyses use Scott’s (1995) institutional model as a framework to consider the regulatory, normative and cognitive-cultural influences on children’s media environments, and to argue that new media offer unique opportunities to study how parents attempt to regulate children’s media usage through a combination of technologies, rating systems, self-designed rules and social awareness. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]