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Introduction / Elisabeth Gee, Lori M. Takeuchi & Ellen Wartella -- Media as a catalyst for children's engagement in learning at home and across settings / Brigid Barron & Amber Maria Levinson -- The influence of siblings on the digital media ecology of Latino children / Elisabeth Gee, Lori M. Takeuchi, Sinem Siyahhan & Briana Ellerbe -- Collecting and connecting: intergenerational learning with digital media / Katie Headrick Taylor, Deborah Silvis & Reed Stevens -- Digital media as a parenting support tool for Hispanic families in the United States / Alexis R. Lauricella, Briana Ellerbe & Ellen Wartella -- Responding to classroom change: how low-income Latino parents view technology's impacts on student learning / Vikki Katz, Carmen Gonzalez & Alexia Raynal -- What makes media educational?: learning from Latino parents and children / Sinem Siyahhan & June Lee -- Children of immigrants' experiences in online information brokering / Jason C. Yip, Carmen Gonzalez & Vikki Katz -- Daddy loves Dora and Mamma loves drama: ethnic media as intergenerational boundary objects / Lori M. Takeuchi & Briana Ellerbe -- Latino immigrant families bridging home and school learning with technology / Amber Maria Levinson -- Appendix: study methods -- Study 1: Learning at home: national survey of educational media use -- Study 2: joint media engagement: case studies of children and parents learning together using media -- Study 3: Joint media engagement, play, literacy, and learning among Mexican-American families -- Study 4: Collecting and connecting: intergenerational learning with digital media -- Study 5: Parents' social networks -- Study 6: Responding to classroom change: how low-income Latino parents view technology's impact on student learning -- Study 7: Online information brokering -- Study 8: Learning with media in modern families -- Study 9: Understanding how Hispanic-Latino immigrant families engage and learn with broadcast and digital media