Full Description
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.
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
