Childhood, Mobile Technologies and Everyday Experiences

This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to-date research, it explores the relationship between childhood as a social and cultural construction and the plethora of mobile internet technologies which have become ubiquitous in everyday life.

Auteur
Emma Bond is Director of the Institute for Social, Educational Enterprise Development (iSEED) and Senior Lecturer at University Campus Suffolk, UK.

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This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to-date research, it explores the relationship between childhood as a social and cultural construction and the plethora of mobile internet technologies which have become ubiquitous in everyday life.

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. Understanding Childhood 3. Understanding Technology 4. Researching Childhood, Mobile Internet Technologies and Everyday Experiences 5. Relationships 6. Risk 7. Rhetoric and Realities 8. Some Concluding Thoughts