Children and the Internet : great expectations, challenging realities /
By: Livingstone, Sonia M
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Publisher: Cambridge : Malden, MA : Polity, 2009Description: x, 301 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745631943 (hbk.); 9780745631943:; 9780745631950 (pbk.); 0745631940 (hbk.); 0745631959 (pbk.).Subject(s): Internet and children | Internet in education | Kind $2 swd | Internet $2 swdDDC classification: 025.04083 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-290) and index.
Changing childhood, changing media -- Youthful experts -- Learning and education -- Communication and identity -- Participation and civic engagement -- Risk and harm -- Media and digital literacies -- Balancing online opportunities and risks.
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, and 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.
A major new contribution to the hot topic of children and the internet from one of the world's leading researchers in this area. It considers children's everyday practices of internet use in relation to the complex socio-cultural conditions of contemporary childhood.