Childhood, mobile technologies and everyday experiences : changing technologies = changing childhoods? / Emma Bond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bond, Emma, author.

Series:

Studies in childhood and youth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet and children--Social aspects.

Internet and children.

Internet and children--Psychological aspects.

Children--Social networks.

Children.

Psychological aspects.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 243 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Many children's everyday lives, their identities, relationships and their communities are increasingly interwoven with mobile internet technologies. Based upon up-to-date research and a highly robust theoretical framework, this impressive and timely book examines the current debates in relation to childhood, as a social and cultural construction, mobile internet technologies and children's everyday experiences. Drawing on the social studies of childhood paradigm and key debates in socio-technical studies, this book provides a much-needed critical and theoretical exploration of children's interactions with mobile internet technologies in late modernity. Exploring technology in relation to relationships, changing perspectives on childhood and risk, and the role of mobile internet technologies in children's educational experiences, Childhood, Mobile Technologies and Everyday Experiences examines the complex and dynamic nature of childhood in contemporary society and offers a significant contribution to the field of childhood and youth studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Understanding Childhood 9

3 Understanding Technology 41

4 Researching Childhood, Mobile Internet Technologies and Everyday Experiences 70

5 Relationships 100

6 Risk 127

7 Rhetoric and Realities 158

8 Some Concluding Thoughts 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137292520

1137292520

OCLC:

887892423