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Children and the Internet : great expectations, challenging realities

Title
  1. Children and the Internet : great expectations, challenging realities / Sonia Livingstone.
Published by
  1. Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2009.
Author
  1. Livingstone, Sonia M.

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Description
  1. x, 301 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. Atarazanas Valencia
  2. Internet and children
  3. Internet in education
  4. 05.20 communication and society
  5. Internet and children
  6. Internet in education
  7. Kind
  8. Jugend
  9. Internet
  10. Internet
  11. Children
  12. Social aspects
  13. Barn
  14. Ungdomar och Internet
  15. Utbildning via Internet
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-290) and index.