Dr. Grant's Screen Discourse Lab

This is an ongoing lab with undergraduate research assistants, learning and participating in qualitative research.

If you are an undergraduate student at UNLV and are interested in participating in this lab, please fill out the interest form below.

Current Project:

For the past few decades, low-income families have spent more time watching television on average than middle- and upper-class peers. Recently, this class difference has expanded to all forms of media. At the same time, there is a growing discourse about the dangers of "screen time" and the need for parents (often mothers, in particular) to limit children's screen time. This study relies on a dataset of 1,023 articles in the most popular parenting websites and blogs, to investigate how the discourse around "screen time" is imbued with classed, gendered, and racialized meanings. How might the discourse on screen time rely on the stigmatization of the lifestyles of marginalized families, and what does this reveal about discourses about the family broadly?

If you are interested in working on this project, you will help organize and analyze this dataset of articles about "screen time," learning about how to approach qualitative coding and identifying emergent themes.

If you are an undergraduate student at UNLV, and are interested in participating as a research assistant in this lab, please fill out this Google Form.

I will revisit this form as the lab kicks off each semester.