The digital divide in Brazil is both well-known and well documented. Although trends show growth in the general use of the internet, almost 5 million Brazilian children live in homes without internet access. In terms of quality, the situation is aggravated by the fact that there is a predominance in the use of mobile phones...
Our team at European Schoolnet organised a series of consultation meetings with educational stakeholders from seven European countries, during which teachers, students and policymakers came together to discuss how research about children and online technologies can be brought closer to those making decisions in this area. Here's what we learned...
Online opportunities bring diverse benefits for children’s learning, participation, creativity and identity. Or so it is often claimed. Although society has invested hugely in access to digital technologies, a recent evidence review found that surprisingly little is understood about how online opportunities generate tangible outcomes for children...
Save the Date: Wednesday, 27 October 2021 | 15:00–16:30 CEST | CO:RE WP8 – TU Dublin | CO:RE Policy Seminar with the H2020-funded partner projects ySKILLS, DigiGen and DIGYMATEX
Rarely does a day pass without TikTok mentioned in the media: whether it is a report of the latest viral video, a social media influencer’s shocking behaviour, or the platform itself allegedly failing to protect children’s safety and data, all of which leave many adults worried and puzzled at the appeal of the platform. For...
Children and young people go online virtually every day. International data on children and online media is extensive, heterogeneous and partly contradictory.
Our aim is to create a comprehensive pan-European knowledge platform with the participation of international researchers, educators, policymakers and concerned dialogue groups. Providing an overview of the research situation, enabling access to empirical data, distributing policy recommendations and offering resources for education lie at the heart of our work.
On this page you currently can find general information about the project, its consortium, publications, events and other outputs. This year, the page will transition and incrementally grow into the CO:RE Knowledge Base – so, stay tuned! 🙂
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CO:RE – Children Online: Research and Evidence is a highly dynamic project aiming at creating a Knowledge Base together with a range of actors and stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds, such as educators, researchers, and policymakers. Here you find all info about stakeholder activities, public events, project publications, blog posts, and much more!
The digital divide in Brazil is both well-known and well documented. Although trends show growth in the general use of the internet, almost 5 million Brazilian children live in homes without internet access. In terms of quality, the situation is aggravated by the fact that there is a predominance in the use of mobile phones for internet access, especially by poor children.
Our team at European Schoolnet organised a series of consultation meetings with educational stakeholders from seven European countries, during which teachers, students and policymakers came together to discuss how research about children and online technologies can be brought closer to those making decisions in this area. Here’s what we learned…
Online opportunities bring diverse benefits for children’s learning, participation, creativity and identity. Or so it is often claimed. Although society has invested hugely in access to digital technologies, a recent evidence review found that surprisingly little is understood about how online opportunities generate tangible outcomes for children…
Save the Date: Wednesday, 27 October 2021 | 15:00–16:30 CEST | CO:RE WP8 – TU Dublin | CO:RE Policy Seminar with the H2020-funded partner projects ySKILLS, DigiGen and DIGYMATEX
Rarely does a day pass without TikTok mentioned in the media: whether it is a report of the latest viral video, a social media influencer’s shocking behaviour, or the platform itself allegedly failing to protect children’s safety and data, all of which leave many adults worried and puzzled at the appeal of the platform. For children, however, when it comes to TikTok, it is a different story altogether.
The Finnish CO:RE team has now completed all reviewing and grading of the excellent summer school participants’ final submissions and colleagues Sirkku Kotilainen and Guna Spurava took the time to look back on this inspiring methods course and participant feedback.
In this vlog, John Hartley talks about his work, the ideas that inspire him, and how we should develop our current thinking related to children’s internet use.
COVID-19 has reminded us that you can never be entirely sure what tomorrow may bring. While forecasts and predictions give us a sense that the future can be anticipated, no one has ever gathered data or evidence about events that are yet to occur.
You have interesting findings and new insights, but are you uncertain how to interpret them? How to move beyond empirical findings to make a theoretical or conceptual contribution, or engage with the current debates?
In this vlog, Amanda Third talks about her work, the ideas that inspire her, and how we should develop our current thinking related to children’s internet use.
CO:RE Co-Creation Sessions | Teenager session Tues, 21 Sept | Teacher session on Tues, 23 Sept | Parents association representatives session on Thurs, 28 Sept | If you are interested in participating, please write to sophie.smit[at]eun.org …
Read about dilemmas of informed consent associated with longitudinal research with young people, the importance of cognitive testing, and ethical issues that can arise when implementing comparative survey-based research in local contexts.
The number of media users who avoid the news had been growing steadily over the past year. However, news avoidance became an increasingly important topic during the pandemic, as more and more people had started ‘coronablocking’. Here’s what children and young people say about blocking news related to COVID-19 and what we can learn from it.
Save the Date: Mon, 12 July 2021 | 17-18:30 CEST | By CO:RE WP5 – Department of Media and Communications, LSE. A multidisciplinary webinar on theories and concepts on children’s opportunities online.
Everyone agrees that research integrity is important. It refers to maintaining trust in science. But what does this imply for researchers? And how can we ensure research integrity in practice?
Technologies are spreading into all aspects of our lives via smart devices, internet of things, augmented reality and data profiling. Children’s lives have become digital by default, with digital technologies the taken-for-granted means of playing, seeing family, doing schoolwork, hanging out with friends in a post-COVID world. But where does the digital begin and end, what does it include?
Diana Poudel is a media and digital literacies teacher in Estonia. Over the past decade, she has toured the schools to listen to parents, teachers, and kids talk about what puzzles or bothers them in online settings and developed an educational game to combat these online issues.
Save the Date: Wednesday, 09 June 2021 | 16:00-17:30 CEST | By CO:RE WP7 – Department of Media and Communications, UiO together with ySKILLS.
In this vlog, Elisabeth Staksrud talks about her work, the ideas that inspire her, and how we should develop our current thinking related to children’s internet use.
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Save the Date: Tuesday, 04 May 2021 | 10:00 – 11:30 CEST | By CO:RE WP7 – Department of Media and Communications, UiO. A webinar about research integrity in the work with children and digital media.
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Our team at University of Tartu is releasing regular blog postings and short reports on the key topics in research of children’s and young people’s online experiences and is now inviting guest authors. Are your writing the next CO:RE short report?
Save the Date: 02-13 August 2021 | By CO:RE WP6 – Tampere University | Summer School Course “Sustainable Digital Life: Methodological Aspects” (5 ECTS)
Save the Date: Fri, 07 May 2021 | 16:30 – 18:00 CEST | By CO:RE WP5 – Department of Media and Communications, LSE. A multidisciplinary webinar on theories and concepts of children in digital environments.
As is being widely discussed, in today’s fast-developing digital ecology, the nature of online risk is continually evolving, sometimes exposing children to emerging risks well before adults know how to mitigate them…
In this vlog, Ellen Wartella talks about her work, the ideas that inspire her, and how we should develop our current thinking related to children’s internet use.
The idea behind the development of the 3Cs of online risk was to disaggregate specific risks, with their different causes and consequences, and broaden the public agenda beyond the then predominant focus on pornography, grooming and cyberbullying.
Resilience has become somewhat of a buzzword in a variety of contexts – from materials to minds. While personal resilience refers to the capacity to maintain or regain psychological wellbeing in the face of challenges, …
Save the Date: Wed, 10 March 2021 | 16:00 – 17:30 CET | By CO:RE WP5 – Department of Media and Communications, LSE. A multidisciplinary webinar on theories and concepts of online risks for children and youth.
For this year’s Safer Internet Day, Uwe Hasebrink, CO:RE project coordinator, invited the work package coordinators Sonia Livingstone, Brian O’Neill and Veronica Donoso to discuss and emphasise the ways in which CO:RE plays its part in creating a better internet.
In this vlog, Uwe Hasebrink talks about his work, the ideas that inspire him, and how we should develop our current thinking related to children’s internet use.
What ethical issues arise when engaging children and young people in research online? And how have these issues been influenced by the current COVID-19 pandemic? On 3 Dec ’20 we organised a webinar to discuss …
Technologies play an increasingly important role for disabled children’s right to “live a full and decent life with dignity and, as far as possible, independence and to play an active part in the community” (UNCRC, Article 23)…
In this vlog, David Finkelhor talks about his work, the ideas that inspire him, and how we should develop our current thinking related to children’s internet use.
Save the Date: Thursday, 03 December 2020 | 10:00 – 11:30 CET | By CO:RE WP7 – Department of Media and Communications, UiO. A webinar about ethical issues relating to conducting research with children online.
We work closely with educators to develop our platform as a one-stop-shop for evidence on children’s and youth’s online experiences. Educator’s insights are vital to cater to existing networks, bridge gaps between research, policy-making and education, …
In this vlog, Sonia Livingstone talks about her work, the ideas that inspire her, and how we should develop our current thinking related to children’s internet use.
Our team in work package 4 (University of Tartu) is releasing regular blog postings on the key themes and hot topics in the research of children’s and young people’s online experiences. Give the first one a read now!
Our CO:RE WP5 team (LSE) releases a new vlog series based on interviews with key experts whose work can help us understand children’s online lives. We asked a series of prominent scholars in the field to reflect on their disciplinary origins and perspectives …
We discussed questions related to children’s well-being in ever more digitized environments with Dr Richard Graham, Professor Laura Lundy, Professor Sonia Livingstone, Professor David Smahel, and Professor Kitty Stewart. Read what they had to say …
CO:RE European Consultation | 27 & 29 October 2020 | By CO:RE WP9 – European Schoolnet. Teenagers and parents invited to take part in a Europe-wide consultation series. If you are interested in participating, please write to nike.retzmann[at]eun.org …
CO:RE Consultations in Belgium | 22 October 2020 | By CO:RE WP9 – European Schoolnet. Teachers invited to take part in a Europe-wide consultation series. If you are interested in participating, please write to nike.retzmann[at]eun.org …
How do we imagine children and young people’s role as digital citizens? What do we expect them to know and understand about online platforms? Over the last decade, we have witnessed major transformations in children’s …
CO:RE Consultations in Portugal | 20 & 27 October 2020 | By CO:RE WP9 – European Schoolnet. Teenagers, parents and teachers invited to take part in a Europe-wide consultation series. If you are interested in participating, please write to nike.retzmann[at]eun.org …
CO:RE Consultations in Ireland | 05-09 October 2020 | By CO:RE WP9 – European Schoolnet. Parents and teachers invited to take part in a Europe-wide consultation series. If you are interested in participating, please write to internetsafety[at]pdst.ie …
Save the Date: Friday, 18 September 2020 | 16:00 – 17:15 CEST | By CO:RE WP5 – Department of Media and Communications, LSE. A multidisciplinary webinar on theories in relation to digital technologies in the lives of children and young people
Well-being has become a bit of a buzzword, but what is it? How does it relate to cognate terms like happiness, health or quality of life? Is it a feature of an individual or a society, and what does it depend on?
Understanding children online: Theories, concepts, debates – Every time we begin to write something about children online, we have to choose our words.
Save the Date: Friday, 03 July 2020 | 16:00 – 17:00 CEST | By CO:RE WP5 – Department of Media and Communications, LSE. A multidisciplinary webinar on the theoretical foundations of digital skills, literacies and citizenship …
Save the Date: Friday, 26 June 2020 | 17:00 – 19:00 CEST | By CO:RE WP8 – TU Dublin. World experts and practitioners review the growing significance of ethical leadership and corporate accountability in digital environments …
The CO:RE project aims at developing a European knowledge platform on digital technologies in the lives of children and young people. To become a partner, contributor or supporter, read on …
The dialogue between science and society has never been more critical. Advisory Boards and Ethics Advisors are important bodies safeguarding science-society relations and thus the quality of a project. Read on to see who’s on board for CO:RE.
Save the Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 | 16:00 – 17:00 CEST | By CO:RE WP5 – Department of Media and Communications, LSE. A multidisciplinary webinar on the impacts of digital technologies on children’s and young people’s well-being …
With the start of the year, the CO:RE project has picked up speed. Read more about our first steps and aims for year 1 here.
On 16 January 2020, the CO:RE project members met at the European Leibniz Office in Brussels for the first time, kicking off a three-year project to create a comprehensive knowledge platform on children and youth online.
