Understanding digitally exclude parents’ digital media literacy needs

Research shows that families living on low incomes are more digitally excluded than those living on higher incomes. They have less access to appropriate digital technologies and quality connections and often face intersecting disadvantage in other determinants of digital inclusion, such as parental education level and employment. Consequently, there is a pressing need to examine how parents support their children’s use of digital technologies in different household types.

This study will generate new evidence about the different digital experiences of children from two cohorts of families (relatively disadvantaged and advantaged) to provide us with a deeper understanding of what is happening at a national level. The findings from this study will inform the new ARC Linkage Project, “Promoting low-income parents’ digital media literacies” that includes CIs from both the QUT and Deakin nodes, along with Centre partner The Smith Family and QUT node partner, the State Library of Queensland.