International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy evaluates the use and impact of digital devices for social interaction, language acquisition and early literacy.

Part 1. Learning and interaction with digital devices. 1.Promising interactive functions in digital storybooks for young children. 2.Cognitively activating and emotionally attuning interactions: Their relevance for language and literacy learning and teaching with digital media. 3.Exploring Media Practices in Inclusive Early Childhood Settings. 4. The caregiver's role in keeping a child-robot interaction going. 5. Beyond words: Children's multimodal responses during word learning with a social robot. Part 2. (Early) Literacy learning with digital media. 6. Promising interactive functions in digital storybooks for young children. 7. A look into the future: How digital tools may advance language development. 8. Designing apps to facilitate first and second language acquisition in children. 9. Digital children's literature in the interplay between visuality and animation: A model for analyzing picture book apps and their potential for children's story comprehension, 10. DAZonline.ch: A gallery of annotated interactive pictures for cross-situational language learning.