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Children and the Internet - Great Expectations, Challenging Realities Author: Livingstone

ISBN: 9780745631950 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 272 Published: 19 June 2009 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 14.9 x 1.7 Description: Is the internet really transforming children and young peoples lives? Is the so-called digital generation genuinely benefiting from exciting new opportunities? And, worryingly, facing new risks?

This major new book by a leading researcher addresses these pressing questions. It deliberately avoids a techno-celebratory approach and, instead, interprets childrens everyday practices of internet use in relation to the complex and changing historical and cultural conditions of childhood in late modernity. Uniquely, Children and the Internet reveals the complex dynamic between online opportunities and online risks, exploring this in relation to much debated issues such as:
Digital in/exclusion
Learning and literacy
Peer networking and privacy
Civic participation
Risk and harm

Drawing on current theories of identity, development, education and participation, this book includes a refreshingly critical account of the challenging realities undermining the great expectations held out for the internet - from governments, t...

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