Sonia Livingstone

Gebundenes Buch

Children and the Internet

Great Expectation, Challenging Realities

Beschreibung

Is the internet really transforming children and youngpeople's lives? Is the so-called 'digitalgeneration' genuinely benefiting from exciting newopportunities? And, worryingly, facing new risks?
This major new book by a leading researcher addresses thesepressing questions. It deliberately avoids a techno-celebratoryapproach and, instead, interprets children's everydaypractices of internet use in relation to the complex and changinghistorical and cultural conditions of childhood in late modernity.Uniquely, Children and the Internet reveals the complexdynamic between online opportunities and online risks, exploringthis 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, educationand participation, this book includes a refreshingly criticalaccount of the challenging realities undermining the greatexpectations held out for the internet - from governments,teachers, parents and children themselves. It concludes with aforward-looking framework for policy and regulation designed toadvance children's rights to expression, connection and playonline as well as offline.

Autor

Sonia Livingstone is a Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780745631943
• ISBN-10: 0745631940
• Artikelnr.: 27830117

Rezensionen

"Looking beyond exaggerated hype and panic, Sonia Livingstone offers a balanced and comprehensive assessment of the role of the internet in children's lives. Combining rigorous quantitative and qualitative research with a critical awareness of broader theoretical questions, this is a definitive work that takes the debate to a new level." -- David Buckingham, Institute of Education, University of London

"Sonia Livingstone is equally at home with statistical and ethnographic insights as she digs deep into the paradoxes and contradictions surrounding young people's online lives. She punctures myths and tips over sacred cows here, but in the process, she's modeling a process of healthy skepticism about the claims being made on all sides about what it means to grow up digital. Throughout, Children and the Internet offers us a guide to how we might seize the potentials and avoid the risks of this new and uncharted cultural terrain." -- Henry Jenkins, Massachussetts Institute of Technology

"Rich and up-to-date information. An excellent assessment of the various risks and opportunities of children's internet use in the home and at school. Sonia Livingstone thoughtfully integrates insights from published work with lucid descriptions of her own research. An invaluable contribution to the field of children and the media." -- Patti Valkenburg, University of Amsterdam

"[Livingstone's] unashamedly sociological approach brings out the fine detail and subtle nuances of everyday life in the digital age."
British Journal of Educational Technology

"More than a summary, this text provides a clear argument that culminates in a series of practical recommendations that involve the responsibilities of parents, governments and the market."
Cultural Studies Review

"Masterfully combines a strong theoretical social science framework with reliable and valid qualitative and quantitative data to inform and engage the reader in a very readable and easily accessible text."
Telecommunications Policy

"Looking beyond exaggerated hype and panic, Sonia Livingstone offers a balanced

and comprehensive assessment of the role of the internet in children's lives. Combining rigorous quantitative and qualitative research with a critical awareness of broader theoretical questions, this is a definitive work that takes the debate to a new level."
David Buckingham, Institute of Education, University of London

"Sonia Livingstone is equally at home with statistical and ethnographic insights as she digs deep into the paradoxes and contradictions surrounding young people's online lives. She punctures myths and tips over sacred cows here, but in the process, she's modeling a process of healthy skepticism about the claims being made on all sides about what it means to grow up digital. Throughout, Children and the Internet offers us a guide to how we might seize the potentials and avoid the risks of this new and uncharted cultural terrain."
Henry Jenkins, Massachussetts Institute of Technology

"Rich and up-to-date information. An excellent assessment of the various risks and opportunities of children's internet use in the home and at school. Sonia Livingstone thoughtfully integrates insights from published work with lucid descriptions of her own research. An invaluable contribution to the field of children and the media."
Patti Valkenburg, University of Amsterdam