ChildTech Anthropology and Algorithmically Mediated Enculturation: A New Interpretive Framework for Children's Cultural Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

This study introduces the conceptual framework of ChildTech Anthropology and proposes the concept of algorithmically mediated enculturation as a new perspective for understanding childhood cultural learning in AI-mediated environments. The paper integrates cultural anthropology, digital anthropology, childhood studies, mediatization theory, and AI ethics in order to examine how algorithmic systems increasingly participate in shaping children’s experiential worlds.