Children, Technology and Culture: The Impacts of Technologies in Children's Everyday Lives

by Ian Hutchby, Jo Moran-Ellis

Overview

Childhood is increasingly saturated by technology: from television to the Internet, video games to 'video nasties', camcorders to personal computers. Children, Technology and Culture looks at the interplay of children and technology which poses critical questions for how we understand the nature of childhood in late modern society. This collection brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to address the following four aspects of this relationship between children and technology:
*children's access to technologies and the implications for social relationships
*the structural contexts of children's engagement with technologies with a focus on gender and the family
*the situatedness of children's interactions with technological objects
*the constitution of children and childhood through the mediations of technology
_ This book represents a substantial contribution to contemporary social scientific thinking both about the nature of children and childhood, the social impacts of technologies and the various relationships between the two.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136365447
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	202
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Ian Hutchby is Lecturer in Communication and Sociology at Brunel University, UK
Jo Moran-Ellis is lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK

Table of Contents

1. Bedroom Culture: Children's Changing Spaces for Engaging With Media: Sonia Livingstone; 2. Cyberkids: Children's Social Networks, 'Virtual Communities' and On-line Spaces: Gill Valentine, Sarah Holloway and Nick Bingham; 3. Media-Childhood in Three European Countries: Daniel Suess and Carmelo Garitonandia; 4. VideoGames: Between Parents and Children: Ferran Cass; 5. Screen Play: Children in 'techno-popular' Culture: Keri Factor and Ruth Furlong; 6. Situated Knowledge and Virtual Education: Problems with Children 'Learning' Through Interaction; Terry Hemmings, Dave Randall, Dave Francis, Liz Marr and Colin Divall 7. 'Bubble Dialogue' and Social Information Processing in Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties: Anne Jones and Emma Price; 8. Children, Evidence and Meditation: Nick Lee; 9. Internet Marketing: Virtual Exploitation? Thomas Lipinsky and Elizabeth Buchanan; 10.Childhood, Communications Policy and Governance: David Oswell; 11. Technologised Childhood? Ian Hutchby and Jo Moran-Ellis

Editorial Reviews

'Overall, the book makes available some excellent material that will inspire and support future work in the area. It is useful for answers to current questions, identifying future areas in need of exploration and also methodologies for exploring these areas. Although not explicitly aimed at an inclusive education audience, its content will be helpful to practitioners seeking to use technological innovations to promote inclusion and also to researchers seeking appropriate methodologies.' - Education, Communication and Infomation

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