Childhood is increasingly saturated by technology: from television to the Internet, video games to 'video nasties', camcorders to personal computers. Children, Technology and Culture looks at the interplay of children and technology which poses critical questions for how we understand the nature of childhood in late modern society. This collection brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to address the following four aspects of this relationship between children and technology:
*children's access to technologies and the implications for social relationships
*the structural contexts of children's engagement with technologies with a focus on gender and the family
*the situatedness of children's interactions with technological objects
*the constitution of children and childhood through the mediations of technology
_ This book represents a substantial contribution to contemporary social scientific thinking both about the nature of children and childhood, the social impacts of technologies and the various relationships between the two.
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'Overall, the book makes available some excellent material that will inspire and support future work in the area. It is useful for answers to current questions, identifying future areas in need of exploration and also methodologies for exploring these areas. Although not explicitly aimed at an inclusive education audience, its content will be helpful to practitioners seeking to use technological innovations to promote inclusion and also to researchers seeking appropriate methodologies.' - Education, Communication and Infomation
List of tables and figures vii List of contributors viii Preface x Introduction: Relating children, technology and culture 1(10) Ian Hutchby Jo Moran-Ellis PART I New technologies, new childhoods? 11(68) Home is where the hardware is: Young people, the domestic environment, and `access to new technologies 13(15) Keri Facer John Furlong Ruth Furlong Rosamund Sutherland Media childhood in three European countries 28(14) Daniel Suss Annikka Suoninen Carmelo Garitaonandia Paxti Juaristi Riitta Koikkalainen Jose A. Oleaga Video games: Between parents and children 42(16) Ferran Casas `Technophobia: Parents and childrens fears about information and communication technologies and the transformation of culture and society 58(21) Gill Valentine Sarah Holloway PART II Technologies in/as interaction 79(72) Fabricating friendships: The ordinariness of agency in the social use of an everyday medical technology in the school lives of children 81(16) Ian Robinson Amber Delahooke Situated knowledge and virtual education: Some real problems with the concept of learning and interactive technology 97(17) Terry A. Hemmings Karen M. Clarke Dave Francis Liz Marr Dave Randall The moral status of technology: Being recorded, being heard, and the construction of concerns in child counselling 114(19) Ian Hutchby Bubble dialogue: Using a computer application to investigate social information processing in children with emotional and behavioural difficulties 133(18) Ann Jones Emma Price PART III Technologies and cultures of childhood 151(34) The extensions of childhood: Technologies, children and independence 153(17) Nick Lee Ethics and techno-childhood 170(15) David Oswell Index 185
Ian Hutchby is Lecturer in Communication and Sociology at Brunel University, UK Jo Moran-Ellis is lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK
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