ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors turn to the everyday experiences of children and their families in the digital age. They considers research findings about the ways in which children's experiences are shaped by family values and attitudes and their family's cultural practices. The authors explores the social and cultural context in which young children are growing up and encountering digital technologies and new media, including the ways in which their relationships with siblings and peers make a difference to their experiences. A cultural-historical theoretical framework, along with a critical perspective on the roles and purposes of digital technologies helps us to conceptualise children's experiences in the digital age. The authors argues that for children growing up in the digital age engagement with digital technologies is a ubiquitous feature of everyday family life, happening in the particular sociocultural context of their home and their relationships with their parents, siblings and peers.
