Livingstone, Sonia 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3248-9862
(2009)
Children and the internet: great expectations, challenging realities.
Polity Press, Oxford, UK.
ISBN 9780745631943
Abstract
Is the internet really transforming children and young people's lives? Is the so-called `digital generation' genuinely benefiting from exciting new opportunities? And, worryingly, facing new risks? This major new book by a leading researcher addresses these pressing questions. It deliberately avoids a techno-celebratory approach and, instead, interprets children's everyday practices of internet use in relation to the complex and changing historical and cultural conditions of childhood in late modernity. Uniquely, Children and the Internet reveals the complex dynamic between online opportunities and online risks, exploring this in relation to much debated issues such as: · Digital in/exclusion · Learning and literacy · Peer networking and privacy · Civic participation · Risk and harm Drawing on current theories of identity, development, education and participation, this book includes a refreshingly critical account of the challenging realities undermining the great expectations held out for the internet - from governments, teachers, parents and children themselves. It concludes with a forward-looking framework for policy and regulation designed to advance children's rights to expression, connection and play online as well as offline.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://www.polity.co.uk/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 The author |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2008 16:03 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 14:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/12487 |
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