Children vs adults: negotiating UNCRC General Comment 25 on children’s rights in the digital environment

Livingstone, Sonia ORCID: 0000-0002-3248-9862, Third, Amanda and Lansdown, Gerison (2024) Children vs adults: negotiating UNCRC General Comment 25 on children’s rights in the digital environment. In: Puppis, Manuel, Mansell, Robin and Van den Bulck, Hilde, (eds.) Handbook of Media and Communication Governance. Elgar. ISBN 9781800887190

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Amidst debates shaping media and communications governance in the 21st century, children’s needs, aspirations and entitlements are often marginal if not invisible. To disrupt ‘adultist’ perspectives and set out a child rights approach to internet governance, this chapter documents the process of drafting general comment 25 on children’s rights in the digital environment. This is an authoritative piece of international law for states and other duty bearers on how the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child applies, and should be implemented, online and offline. In the multistakeholder effort to ensure that the digital environment supports and not infringes children’s rights, the adoption of general comment 25 was a watershed moment. We examine how global consultations with the public, children and experts shaped the general comment text, focusing especially on tensions between protection and participation, around children’s age and ‘evolving capacity’, and in relation to ‘best interests.’

Item Type:	Book Section
Official URL:	https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-media...
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman K Law > K Law (General)
Date Deposited:	22 Apr 2024 15:12
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2024 14:30
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122734

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