Children, risk and safety on the internet [electronic resource] : research and policy challenges in comparative perspective /
Livingstone, Sonia M.
Haddon, Leslie.
Görzig, Anke.
As internet use is extending to younger children, there is an increasing need for research focus on the risks young users are experiencing, as well as the opportunities, and how they should cope. With expert contributions from diverse disciplines and a uniquely cross-national breadth, this timely book examines the prospect of enhanced opportunities for learning, creativity and communication set against the fear of cyberbullying, pornography and invaded privacy by both strangers and peers. Based on an impressive in-depth survey of 25,000 children carried out by the EU Kids Online network, it offers wholly new findings that extend previous research and counter both the optimistic and the pessimistic hype. It argues that, in the main, children are gaining the digital skills, coping strategies and social support they need to navigate this fast-changing terrain. But it also identifies the struggles they encounter, pinpointing those for whom harm can follow from risky online encounters. Each chapter presents new findings and analyses to inform both researchers and students in the social sciences and policy makers in government, industry or child welfare who are working to enhance children's digital experiences. As internet use is extending to younger children, there is an increasing need for research focus on the risks young users are experiencing, as well as the opportunities, and how they should cope. With expert contributions from diverse disciplines and a uniquely cross-national breadth, this timely book examines the prospect of enhanced opportunities for learning, creativity and communication set against the fear of cyberbullying, pornography and invaded privacy by both strangers and peers. Based on an impressive in-depth survey of 25,000 children carried out by the EU Kids Online network, it offers wholly new findings that extend previous research and counter both the optimistic and the pessimistic hype. It argues that, in the main, children are gaining the digital skills, coping strategies and social support they need to navigate this fast-changing terrain. But it also identifies the struggles they encounter, pinpointing those for whom harm can follow from risky online encounters. Each chapter presents new findings and analyses to inform both researchers and students in the social sciences and policy makers in government, industry or child welfare who are working to enhance children's digital experiences.
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Children, risk andsafety on the internet; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Theoretical framework for children's internet use; Introduction; This volume; Digital transformations: all change in the lives of children?; Beyond moral panics: from risk to harm; Multi-stakeholder responsibility for empowering and protecting children online; A working model for children's internet use: relating opportunities and risks; 2. Methodological framework: the EU Kids Online project; Questionnaire development
Selecting a representative sample of children who use the internetFieldwork and ethics; Data description; Patterns of sampling and fieldwork procedures; 3. Cognitive interviewing and responses to EU Kids Online survey questions; Cognitive development; Aims of the chapter; Cognitive interviewing process; Children's understandings of the survey questions; Conclusion; 4. Which children are fully online?; Digital exclusion research; National differences in inclusion; Measuring access; Findings; Linking national and individual-level characteristics; Conclusion; 5. Varieties of access and use
IntroductionEmerging trends and cross-national variations; Access: private, public and shared; Usage: experience and embeddedness; Explaining access and usage; Conclusion; 6. Online opportunities; Average number of activities; Average number of activities across countries; Types of activities in which children engage; Country comparisons; Conclusion; 7. Digital skills in the context of media literacy; Digitally literate children?; Three ways of measuring digital literacy; Differences in children's digital literacy; Differences in digital literacy among countries
Differences in digital literacy among children and countriesConclusion; 8. Between public and private: privacy in social networking sites; Introduction; Popularity of social networking among the children; Privacy of SNS profiles; Misuse of personal data; Conclusion; 9. Experimenting with the self online: a risky opportunity; Introduction; Research aims and methods; Findings; Conclusion; 10. Young Europeans' online environments: a typology of user practices; Introduction; Conceptual and methodological considerations; Operationalisation; Identifying patterns of online usage
Individual determinants of patterns of online usageCountries as determinants of patterns of online usage; Conclusion; 11. Bullying; What is (not) cyberbullying?; Incidence of cyberbullying; Sociodemographic and personal factors affecting cyberbullying; Operationalisation of cyberbullying; Cyberbullying experiences among 9- to 16-year-olds in Europe; Conclusion; 12. 'Sexting': the exchange of sexual messages online among European youth; Sexting': a new cultural phenomenon?; Sexting among European youth; Explaining sexting; Country differences; From evidence to policy; 13. Pornography
Harm, childhood and appropriate media content: an ongoing debate
As internet use is extending to younger children, there is an increasing need for research focus on the risks young users are experiencing, as well as the opportunities, and how they should cope. With expert contributions from diverse disciplines and a uniquely cross-national breadth, this timely book examines the prospect of enhanced opportunities for learning, creativity and communication set against the fear of cyberbullying, pornography and invaded privacy by both strangers and peers. Based on an impressive in-depth survey of 25,000 children carried out by the EU Kids Online network, it offers wholly new findings that extend previous research and counter both the optimistic and the pessimistic hype. It argues that, in the main, children are gaining the digital skills, coping strategies and social support they need to navigate this fast-changing terrain. But it also identifies the struggles they encounter, pinpointing those for whom harm can follow from risky online encounters. Each chapter presents new findings and analyses to inform both researchers and students in the social sciences and policy makers in government, industry or child welfare who are working to enhance children's digital experiences. As internet use is extending to younger children, there is an increasing need for research focus on the risks young users are experiencing, as well as the opportunities, and how they should cope. With expert contributions from diverse disciplines and a uniquely cross-national breadth, this timely book examines the prospect of enhanced opportunities for learning, creativity and communication set against the fear of cyberbullying, pornography and invaded privacy by both strangers and peers. Based on an impressive in-depth survey of 25,000 children carried out by the EU Kids Online network, it offers wholly new findings that extend previous research and counter both the optimistic and the pessimistic hype. It argues that, in the main, children are gaining the digital skills, coping strategies and social support they need to navigate this fast-changing terrain. But it also identifies the struggles they encounter, pinpointing those for whom harm can follow from risky online encounters. Each chapter presents new findings and analyses to inform both researchers and students in the social sciences and policy makers in government, industry or child welfare who are working to enhance children's digital experiences.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Internet and children.
Sociology.
Internet