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Author Livingstone, Sonia

Title Children and the Internet
Published Oxford : Wiley, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (315 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1: Changing Childhood, Changing Media; 2: Youthful Experts; 3: Learning and Education; 4: Communication and Identity; 5: Participation and Civic Engagement; 6: Risk and Harm; 7: Media and Digital Literacies; 8: Balancing Online Opportunities and Risks; Appendix; Notes; References; Index
Summary 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
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780745674698
0745674690