Children and young people today are growing up with a multitude of digital media offerings. There are always new devices and usage options that characterise the lives of adolescents and play a role in everyday life for families and schools. Girls and boys also use media to shape their relationships with others and to position themselves within their respective social groups and areas of life.

In our project, we investigated how children and young people grow up in a mediatised world. We were interested in how their everyday media lives are shaped and how children and young people master important transitions for them. For this purpose, we have been following and interviewing families from 2018 to 2023.

In order to investigate how the way children and young people grow up in connection with digital media changes, we conducted several interviews with the families over a longer period of time. In doing so, we wanted to gain insights into how family life changes over time and what significance the use of media has for shaping relationships between family members.

The research project was a cooperation between the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kammerl) and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research I Hans-Bredow-Institut (Dr. Claudia Lampert) and was supported by the German Research Foundation.

The English brief summaries of our book publications summarise the main findings from the first two years of the project and the second project phase.

An English blog post on the CO:RE project website also provides further insights into the project and can be accessed here.