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Author Kucirkova, Natalia

Title The Future of the Self Understanding Personalization in Childhood and Beyond
Published Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (295 p.)
Contents Intro -- Half-Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Author -- Introduction -- 1. Personalization-Pluralization -- The commercial and educational use of personalization -- Personification and anthropomorphism -- Name-based personalization -- Personalization based on diverse personal data -- Personalization and Early Childhood -- Personalized Education Nomenclature -- Personalized Design -- What is Not Personalization? -- PluraliZation -- The P-P Balance -- Nature and Nurture in "Self" -- 2. Quantity and Complexity
The Scale of Datafication -- Children's Use of Technologies -- Persuasive Design of Technologies -- Extreme Amplification -- Internet for Children -- The Quantities of Personal Data: Is More Better? -- Data-driven Education -- Assessments and Personalized Education -- The Complexity of Personal Data -- Optimal quantities of personal data -- 3. Agency -- What is Agency? -- Agentic and Automatic Personalization -- Agentic and Automated Choices -- Open-ended Design -- The Agency Hypothesis -- Optimal Levels of Agency -- The Privacy Paradox -- The 5As of Agentic Personalization -- 4. Acceleration
Personalization and Power -- Correlates of Personalization: Inequality -- The Beginnings of Commercial Personalization -- Moderators of Extreme Personalization: Neoliberal Capitalism and Meritocracy -- Personalized Time -- Screen Time -- Personalized Space -- Mediators: Collective and Personal Migrations -- Personal Migrations -- Causal Factor: Acceleration of Change -- Symptoms of Extreme Personalization: Confusion -- 5. Density -- Body-related personalization -- Replicating instead of extending our bodies -- The extended self theory -- The networked self
Congruence between our ideal and actual "self" -- Abstraction -- Desired difficulties -- Adaptive personalization and adaptive learning -- The personalized brain -- The Relational Self -- Selfies: A Digital Self that Extends and Relates -- Personalized Mnemonics -- Optimal Personalization Density -- The Computer as a Human Brain Metaphor -- Alternative Metaphors -- 6. Sequence -- Myth 1: personalized versus standardized education -- Personalized and standardized assessments -- Myth 2: educational technology versus human teaching -- Myth 3: personalization versus pluralization
The Sequence Myth -- Engagement and Personalization -- The P-P Curriculum -- Dialogue in Education -- Educational Futures -- A Meteorological Metaphor for P-P education -- 7. Distance -- Stories and Narratives -- Children's Story Books -- Children's Digital Story Books -- Personalized Story Books -- Shared Book Reading -- Commercially Produced Personalized Books -- The Distancing Hypothesis -- The Techniques of the Distancing Hypothesis -- Contextualization -- Conversation -- Personal Resonance -- Future Personalized Books -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2
Summary When children as young as three can take their own selfies, and customise their own avatars, how should we respond to the opportunity and threat of digital personalization for young children? In this book, Kucirkova offers a comprehensive account of the effects of digitally-mediated personalization on children's development of 'self'
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Chapter 3
Subject Identity (Psychology) in children.
Self -- Social aspects
Online identities.
Child & developmental psychology.
Psychology -- Developmental / Child.
Identity (Psychology) in children
Online identities
Self -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1800439466
9781800439467