Understanding children online: Theories, concepts, debates
Understanding children online:
Theories, concepts, debates –
Every time we begin to write something about children online, we have to choose our words.
Chasing rainbows: children’s well-being in a digital world
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?
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Empowering young people in the digital world: digital skills, literacies and citizenship
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 …
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Children’s well-being in a digital world: key questions on theories answered
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 …
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Quick! What’s the first thing on your mind when thinking about children in the digital world?
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!
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Important gaps to bridge: Empowering educational decision-makers through evidence
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, …
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Children with disabilities in the digital environment: turning disadvantage into opportunity
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)…
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Engaging children and young people in research online: Ethical dilemmas, guidelines and experiences
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 …
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Looking at online risks for children is not enough – we need to think about harm
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…
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The quilt of key topics: Could you pair TikTok and parenting in a blog post?
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?
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Drone-Boys and VR-Grannies against Bad Hackers
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.
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Children and the digital environment
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?
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