e-Society and Children’s Participation

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Brian O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Base ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Important Group ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Policy Discussion

Children constitute an important group within policy discussion on information society issues, particularly in the context of digital learning opportunities and e-inclusion. However, their participation in e-society is also a cause for some public and policy concern. With ever-earlier adoption of new internet technologies and services by children, questions arise as to how to best ensure their protection whilst seeking to encourage positive online opportunities. A delicate balancing act is required to manage risks they may encounter while promoting greater participation online. To better inform this policy field, EU Kids Online conducted a pan-European survey of children’s use of the internet, resulting in the first fully comparable evidence base of children’s use of the internet in 25 European countries. Drawing on its findings, this chapter examines children’s participation in e-society and addresses the nature of online opportunities, the kinds of digital skills required and evidence of the risks young people may face on the internet. The chapter argues that greater attention to children’s perspectives on e-society is needed to foster greater online trust and participation.

scholarly journals Ecological perspectives and children’s use of the Internet: exploring micro to macro level analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Effects Of Media

Age-old debates on children’s encounters with media technologies reveal a long, fractured and contentious tradition within communication and media studies. Despite the fact there have been studies of effects of media use by children since the earliest days of broadcasting, the subject remains under-theorised, poorly represented in the literature and not widely understood in media policy debates. Old debates have intensified in relation to the study of children and the internet. Pitted between alarmist accounts of risks, excessive use and harmful effects on the one hand and the many accounts about "digital natives" and the transformational power of technology is the empirical project – represented by EU Kids Online among others – of building an evidence base for understanding the evolving environment for youth online engagement. In this paper, I situate that body of work in an ecological context, both in the sense of the Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological model that has been so important in the new sociology of childhood, as well as in the more loosely defined theoretical approach of media ecology. The latter tradition, associated primarily with McLuhan and later Postman, frames the media environment as a complex interplay between technology and society in which modes of communication and mediated interaction fundamentally shape human behaviour and social life. These strands offer the basis for framing some of the issues of evidence-based policymaking relating to internet governance, regulation and youth protection online.

scholarly journals LOS MENORES ANTE LOS PELIGROS DIGITALES EN MÉXICO Y SU PROTECCIÓN LEGAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 165-188
Author(s):  
Concepción Regalado Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Electronic Equipment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Use Of The Internet

RESUMEN En los ultimos años, niños y adolescentes han aprendido tempranamente el manejo de los equipos electrónicos; sin embargo, aunque han adquirido habilidades digitales, ignoran los peligros que su uso implica. El presente trabajo se propone identificar los principales peligros digitales que enfrentan los menores al navegar libremente en Internet, y el alcance de la protección legal disponible en México. Para tal efecto se identifica el uso de internet entre niños y adolescentes; se detectan los principales peligros digitales, y el alcance de la protección legal disponible en México y en el mundo. Las dimensiones que caracteriza este problema conlleva a considerar que los esfuerzos nacionales son insuficientes si los delitos informáticos no se resuelven en un marco internacional. ABSTRACTThe internet is, after television, the means of communication that has the greatest influence on children and young people. In recent years, children and adolescents have learned early how to use electronic equipment; however, although they have acquired digital skills, they are unaware of the dangers that their use implies. This work aims to identify the main digital dangers that minors face when freely browsing the Internet, and the scope of legal protection available in Mexico. For this purpose, the use of the internet among children and adolescents is identified; the main digital dangers are detected, and the scope of legal protection available in Mexico and in the world. The dimensions that characterize this problem lead to consider that national efforts are insufficient if cybercrime is not solved in an international framework.

Internet Addiction as a Behavioral Addiction

2022 ◽  
pp. 352-373
Author(s):  
Emre Kol ◽  
Seda Topgul
Keyword(s):  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Behavioral Addiction ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Important Group ◽  
Cyber Violence ◽  
Computer Addiction ◽  
Use Of The Internet

Taking into consideration the gradually widespread use of the internet, children are thought to be an important group both in terms of the time they spend on the internet and the dangers they will be exposed to in the virtual world. Internet addiction is essentially a type of behavioral addiction, characterized by a certain behavioral pattern, which is confronted with both physical, psychological, and social consequences. The research aims to establish a correlation between children's addiction to computer games with the cyber violence that they may be exposed to base on this addiction. For this reason, this study is a systematic review that aims to examine the effects of computer addiction as a subtype of internet addiction, which is a type of behavioral addiction, on children and its relationship with cyber violence. The research significantly contributes to the literature by revealing the effects of COVID-19 on children's addiction to computer games and the correlation of children's addiction to computer games with cyber violence.

Young Children's Participation in Everyday Family and Community Activity

2002 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 875-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl J. Dunst ◽  
Deborah Hamby ◽  
Carol M. Trivette ◽  
Melinda Raab ◽  
Mary Beth Bruder
Keyword(s):  
Primary Caregivers ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Considerable Variability ◽  
Family Activities ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Different Ages ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Children's Participation

Patterns of participation in everyday family and community activities are described for children from birth to 6 years of age. Parents or other primary caregivers completed a survey of either family life or community life as sources of children's learning opportunities and experiences. Rates of children's participation in 50 family activities and 50 community activities at different ages were identified and analyzed in terms of similarities and differences in participation patterns. Findings indicated considerable variability in involvement in 100 family and community activities by young children of different ages. Implications for using everyday family and community activities as sources of enriched learning opportunities that enhance children's development are discussed.

scholarly journals Digitalization and Labor Market—A Perspective within the Framework of Pandemic Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 2843-2857
Author(s):  
Grigore Ioan Piroșcă ◽  
George Laurențiu Șerban-Oprescu ◽  
Liana Badea ◽  
Mihaela-Roberta Stanef-Puică ◽  
Carlos Ramirez Valdebenito
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Flexible Labor ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The current pandemic crisis, which is far from being over, has led to a significant paradigm shift in economics. In a turbulent environment in which the labor market has encountered a long series of changes generated by the processes of automation, robotization and digitalization, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that a workforce with digital skills can quickly adjust to new circumstances. Since novel issues, such as restrictions on internal movement and distorted supply chains, put major stress on the labor market, it seems that there is an urgent need for reshaping economies and following up-to-date technological trends. Moreover, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant number of scholars and policymakers expressed their concerns about the volatility of employment and the weak ability of labor to adapt to new types of jobs. Within this framework, our paper aims to analyze the plausible impacts of digital efficiency on the future development of the labor market. Based upon the assumption that employment is facing ongoing challenges and the labor market is constantly being reshaped by technological trends, our study attempts to provide a pragmatic analysis of the effects of digital skills and the use of the Internet on salaries and wages in EU member states. Since, according to our results, the levels of salaries and wages are strongly correlated with digital proficiency and Internet usage, a consistent effort to increase the digital skills of individuals may be required to achieve a more effective and flexible labor market.

scholarly journals Zostań MovieStarPlanet! – czyli o partycypacji kultury dziecięcej w kulturze cyfrowej

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-99
Author(s):  
Joanna Dziekońska
Keyword(s):  
Digital Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Children's Culture ◽  
Children's Participation

This article reflects on the specificity of contemporary children’s participation in digital culture. It comprises study results, whose aim was the reconstruction of children’s culture created by children during internet communication in the MovieStarPlanet service. The communication in the service has been treated as an example of a new dimension of children’s culture and, as such, it is the subject of the present study. The adopted study procedure mainly comprised the netnographic method and revealed many original examples of children’s culture. Among the creations published by children in the service, the following were distinguished, among others, multimedia images (ArtBooks, arts), several short audio-visual pieces, animated photos, stylings (looks) as well as text thematic games published on the forum. The analysis of children’s e-folklore allowed formulating conclusions on the communal and creative functioning of children in a selected web place, a rich variety of themes and types of undertaken communication initiatives and the existence of specific features of children’s language suggesting the existence of the internet aspect of children’s culture.

scholarly journals Intensive and excessive Internet use: Different predictors operating among adolescents

Psihologija ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-290
Author(s):  
Dragan Popadic ◽  
Zoran Pavlovic ◽  
Dobrinka Kuzmanovic
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Parental Mediation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
International Survey ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Excessive Internet Use ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The aim of this study was to determine the factors which have a predictive value when it comes to the intensive and excessive use of the Internet among adolescents. Predictors tested included different psychological, behavioural, and socio-demographic variables. The data were collected at the end of 2018 within the framework of the international survey EU Kids Online, on a sample of 863 adolescents from Serbia (434 [50%] males) aged 11 to 17 years. It was shown that the intensive use of the Internet was more characteristic among girls, adolescents with a tendency towards antisocial behaviours, those who think to have advanced digital skills and those whose parents did not apply restrictive forms of mediation. On the other hand, the excessive use of the Internet was related to certain psychological variables, like anxiety, impulsivity, and perceived discrimination on various grounds, but also to the absence of active parental mediation and support in the use of digital technologies.

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