Digital policy analysis: a methodological toolkit

Helsper, Ellen ORCID: 0000-0002-0852-2853, Rao, Shivani and Lyons Longworth, Marisa (2025) Digital policy analysis: a methodological toolkit. . Digital Futures for Children centre, LSE & 5Rights Foundation, London, UK.

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Abstract

This toolkit provides researchers with a step-by-step guide detailing a systematic methodology for evaluating if and how digital policies represent certain groups and their rights. The methodology underpinning the toolkit facilitates an in-depth understanding of how policies consider diversity and inequalities, identifying opportunities for improvement in policies that are shaping not just the present, but also the future. This toolkit can be adapted and applied across different political, legal and cultural contexts and policy domains. It can be used to analyse policies at the global, regional, national, local and institutional level, to uncover commonalities and divergences between and within policies at these levels and between and within countries. This toolkit is borne out of research conducted for the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC).1 The DFC project analysed the representations of children, their rights and inequalities between them in over 300 digital policies across 35 intergovernmental, regional and national governing bodies. For a detailed description of the findings, please read the accompanying reports: Left out and misunderstood: Children in digital policies. A global review2 and Left out and misunderstood: Children in global, regional and national digital policies.3

Item Type:	Monograph (Report)
Official URL:	https://www.digital-futures-for-children.net/home
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Authors
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	05 Dec 2025 14:15
Last Modified:	01 Jan 2026 04:19
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130446

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