This paper discusses findings from online surveys completed by parents of 0–3-year-old children in Norway, Portugal and Japan concerning their young children’s use of touchscreen technology. The study investigated parental practices, views and perspectives related to children’s digital practices and explored these in relation to wider cultural discourses around early childhood in the participant countries. The study adopted Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory to inform the questionnaire and interpretative data analysis of how parents’ views and experiences are influenced by a wide range of social, cultural and personal factors. The findings demonstrate some coherence between beliefs among parents regarding very young children’s use of touchscreen technologies and their place in the children’s home lives. Quantitative and qualitative results highlight that the respondents from all countries expressed the need for further guidance regarding technology use, and better communication with early education and care centres. The study findings are discussed in relation to the reported uses of touchscreen technologies in the three different cultural contexts, parents’ views on the benefits and/or disadvantages of children’s touchscreen technology use, and the potential influences of dominant cultural discourses on parents’ perceptions, views and practices.

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0-3 岁儿童使用触摸屏技术：挪威、葡萄牙和日本父母的做法和观点

本文讨论了由挪威、葡萄牙和日本 0-3 岁儿童的父母完成的有关幼儿使用触摸屏技术的在线调查的结果。该研究调查了与儿童数字实践相关的父母的做法、观点和观点，并在参与国围绕幼儿期的更广泛的文化话语对这些进行了探讨。该研究采用 Bronfenbrenner 的生态系统理论来为问卷和解释性数据分析提供信息，说明父母的观点和经历如何受到广泛的社会、文化和个人因素的影响。调查结果表明，父母对幼儿使用触摸屏技术的信念与其在儿童家庭生活中的地位存在一定的一致性。定量和定性结果突出表明，所有国家的受访者都表示需要就技术使用提供进一步指导，并与早期教育和护理中心进行更好的沟通。研究结果的讨论涉及三种不同文化背景下所报告的触摸屏技术使用情况、父母对儿童使用触摸屏技术的好处和/或劣势的看法，以及主流文化话语对父母看法的潜在影响，观点和做法。