Livingstone, Sonia 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3248-9862
(2005)
Mediating the public/private boundary at home: children’s use of the internet for privacy and participation.
Journal of Media Practice, 6 (1).
pp. 41-51.
ISSN 1468-2753
Abstract
Popular and academic discourse contains numerous claims regarding the role of the changing media environment in the privatization of public space or, conversely, in the extension of the public realm into the domestic. This article examines the changing public/private boundary for children, young people and their families as new forms of media, most recently, the Internet, enter and become established within the home. By looking more closely at the public/private boundary, three distinct processes are identified, one concerned with questions of interest and profit, one with participation and community and one with governance and privacy. Children’s experiences of the Internet are considered in relation to each of these, revealing their concerns for privacy, pleasure and peer-networking. The article analyses these processes in terms of the drivers of social change in order to better understand existing social tensions over the public/private boundary in relation to changing media and changing conditions of childhood.
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Media and Communications |
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H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Date Deposited: |
30 Nov 2005 |
| Last Modified: |
13 Sep 2024 22:00 |
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http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/506 |
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