YouTube for young children: What are infants and toddlers watching on the most popular video-sharing app?

Background: Infants and toddlers engage with digital media about 1-3 hours per day with a growing proportion of time spent on YouTube.

Aim: Examined content of YouTube videos viewed by children 0-35.9 months of age and predictors of YouTube content characteristics.

Frequency and Duration of Advertising on Popular Child-Directed Channels on a Video-Sharing Platform.

This cross-sectional study quantifies the number and duration of distinct advertisements that appear during child-directed videos on a video-sharing platform as well as the frequency of age-inappropriate ads.

Putting education in "educational" apps: lessons from the science of learning.

Children are in the midst of a vast, unplanned experiment, surrounded by digital technologies that were not available but 5 years ago. At the apex of this boom is the introduction of applications ("apps") for tablets and smartphones. However, there is simply not the time, money, or resources available to evaluate each app as it enters the market.

Media as social partners: the social nature of young children's learning from screen media.

Television has become a nearly ubiquitous feature in children's cultural landscape. A review of the research into young children's learning from television indicates that the likelihood that children will learn from screen media is influenced by their developing social relationships with on-screen characters, as much as by their developing perception of the screen and their symbolic understanding and comprehension of information presented on screen. Considering the circumstances in which children under 6 years learn from screen media can inform teachers, parents, and researchers about the important nature of social interaction in early learning and development.

Word learning from baby videos.

Objective: To examine whether children between 12 and 25 months of age learn words from an infant-directed DVD designed for that purpose.

Design: Half of the children received a DVD to watch in their home over the course of 6 weeks.

Setting: All participants returned to a laboratory for testing on vocabulary acquisition every 2 weeks.

Just a talking book? Word learning from watching baby videos.

This study examined the relationship between viewing an infant DVD and expressive and receptive language outcomes. Children between 12 and 15 months were randomly assigned to view Baby Wordsworth, a DVD highlighting words around the house marketed for children beginning at 12 months of age. Viewings took place in home settings over 6 weeks.