Digital environments reshaping children’s ecological affordance management: Hybrid ecologies, parallel strategies, and environmental shaping

This study extends Ko and Neuberg's affordance management theory to digital environments. Key findings include: (1) hybrid digital-physical ecologies alter attention and feedback mechanisms; (2) the parallelization of stages and strategies disrupts developmental sequences; and (3) the commercial logics of algorithms conflict with children's needs for autonomous development. These mechanisms underscore critical challenges in child development in the digital age.