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Knowing that children and teenagers are between the highest consumers of new digital media that gradually transformed our lives and changed our habits of communication and interconnection, the scholar attention is moving from searching their online consumption patterns, to the mediation strategies used by parents, referring to all the efforts they made to increase the benefits and limit the risks of the Internet for their children. Meanwhile, the parents are concerned regarding internet risks and eager to receive valuable information for applying the most effective digital mediation strategies, but the researches seem not helping enough, because their conclusions are incongruent, using different concepts to define similar behaviors, or offering contradictory results.
Taking into consideration that the scoping or systematic review is a research method very useful to synthesize results on a particular topic of a research area, offering the opportunity to identify key concepts and gaps in the researches, it will be used to: define a dynamic model of parental digital mediation strategies; identify the key variables that influence this model; point the gaps that still need to be fulfilled by searching this domain. This paper will address the issues of parental digital mediation strategies, developing a dynamic model as it emerges from the systematic review of 28 articles on this theme published from 2017 until now, retrieved from Google Scholar and PubMed databases, indicating the positive and negative effects of parental behavior on children internet usage habits.
Keywords: parental digital mediation strategy; neglecting mediation; inverse mediation.
Introduction
Given the importance of knowing and understanding how children and young people are affected by technology and the primary socialization is transformed into "digitally connected families" (Lim S.S., 2018) many researchers have investigated recently this process offering fruitful data, but divers and not centralized to offer an overview on the phenomenon. Taking into account the particularities of the target group - children and teenagers - various research methods have been used, quantitative and qualitative, specifically sociological or borrowed from other sciences, innovation, creativity and flexibility being their essential attributes. The results show that the main risks of digital technology for children are: exposure to cyberbullying, extreme violence, hate messages, sexting, and sexual content, dating with strangers, data security issues and excessive internet use, addiction and...