Children’s Vulnerability to Digital Technology within the Family: A Scoping Review
, Halla B. Holmarsdottir 2, Olaf Kapella 3, Merike Sisask 4 and Liudmila Zinoveva 4
Suzana Kraljić
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The title of the article reflects its content and the research problem. The abstract reflects the core of the problem of scientific research. The selection of key words is appropriate.
Readers are appropriately introduced to the research problem of the article in the Introcuction Chapter.
The article aims to present how children and young people are vulnerable regarding digital technology. Hereby the author is focusing on diverse aspects of the family. The author describes five domains of vulnerability: extensive internet use; age and gender; risky online behaviour; social networking as a social lubrican; and parental madeiation and care.
Methodologically the article opens with introduction followed by materials and methods, and results chapter.
Author is using appropriate and adequate references (85 references).
Author's findings contribute to a better understanding of the problem how children's vulnerability is connected with the use of digital technology.
Since the article represents an appropriate scientific contribution it is suitable for publication.
Author Response
Thank you for your willingness to review our article. We have read your comments with great pleasure and are happy to see you find our work answering its objective and is suitable for publication.
Reviewer 2 Report
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to act as a reviewer for this manuscript.
The study answers the research objective: to identify and synthesize the literature about the factors that contribute to positive and negative outcomes of youngsters' use of ICT in families.
The manuscript is written in a simple and clear way, but as I am not a native English speaker I cannot say if the language used is acceptable or not.
Definitely, it deserves to be published.
Just an idea to be valued by the authors: could the table be deleted, including its data within the text?
Author Response
Thank you for your willingness to review our article. We have read your comments with great pleasure and are happy to see you find our work answering its objective and deserves to be published. Your comment on the table was a wise one, and we have done as suggested and incorporated the numbers into the text.
