There’s no doubt that the pandemic has altered our relationship with media and technology over the last year, especially for young people whose education, entertainment, ...more

Around the world governments encourage teaching in digital skills and literacies in the school curriculum and promote digital learning at home. The hope is that ...more

Online content subscription platform OnlyFans attracted a good deal of attention at the end of August when it announced that it would be banning sexually ...more

An estimated 13% of the global adolescent population aged 12-19 years – or 166 million children – live with some mental disorder, according to UNICEF’s ...more

While the Covid-19 pandemic has sent internet use to record levels among both children and adults, UK household adoption of connected devices has been growing ...more

The influence of digital everyday technologies on the lives of children and young people is an increasingly researched field. This applies to the resulting opportunities ...more

Here we are at the beginning of a new school year once again, not quite sure what’s ahead of us and how to prepare for ...more

The UK government recently published a draft Online Safety Bill, which it says delivers on its commitment “to make the UK the safest place in the ...more

Children of all ages are at the forefront of using digital technologies but we often hear in the media how their internet use can be ...more

A lot has changed in the world of digital play over the past decade. The speed and power of processors have produced games that we ...more

We may be emerging from the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, but with the pandemic came one of the greatest mental ...more

Young women become compelled to share more of their bodies on social media and "act sexy" to maintain their subscribers' interest and earn money. In ...more

As another school year draws to an end, many educators and parents might heave a sigh of relief. The past months have been demanding, often requiring a quick ...more

It’s been an eventful year in many ways, and a tough one for most people. Children’s lives became digital by default. Education went remote. Screen ...more

“Welcome to the World of Twisted ToysTM, a wonderland of excitement,  experiences and exploitation. We pride ourselves on making toys that are addictive, risky and ...more

Amidst ongoing focus on the difficulties many new mothers face in the period after having a baby, attention has recently been paid to the struggles ...more

During the pandemic, many children’s lives became ‘digital by default.’ What have we learnt? While children have reported some positive experiences, says Sonia Livingstone (LSE), digital inequalities ...more

The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted in-class, face-to-face learning to remote learning. But the consequences for children’s education are yet to be properly evaluated. Suddenly, education became dependent on fair ...more

Children’s need for play in the current pandemic can be mapped in their imaginary farms, dens and worlds of Minecraft and dance routines on TikTok. As ...more

The number of children who live in conflict zones is staggering: eighty-one percent live in a conflict-ridden state –1.8 billion souls. Yet when scholars discuss ...more

For many families and children in the UK, 2021 kicked off with old and new challenges and uncertainties. Much about this school term has been ambiguous, ...more

How do parents and carers approach bringing up their children in the digital age? Drawing on research for Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes ...more

The government's Online Safety Bill, recently announced in the Queen's Speech, calls for a new system of regulation for tech companies with the goal of preventing ...more

Parents can become overwhelmed by the rapid changes in information and communication technologies (ICT) and contradictory advice on how best to support their children’s safe ...more

Children, like adults, are spending more time online. At home and school pre-schoolers now use an array of apps and platforms to learn, play and ...more

In the growing debate over children’s rights in relation to the digital world, parents may wonder about their role. As technology gets more complex, seemingly ...more

Childhood records, once kept safe in paper files and family memory books, now exist as records in the digital cloud. This data has become increasingly ...more

The claim that students’ use of mobile phones at school is connected with lower academic performance has consistently featured in the popular debate around school ...more

The interest in personalisation, that is using information about individuals for tailoring generic content, has been with us since the dawn of humankind, but it ...more

In this post originally published by the CILIP Information Literacy Group, Gianfranco Polizzi, research fellow at the University of Birmingham, writes about digital and data literacy, focussing on ...more

Digital technologies are often praised for having special relevance for children with disabilities, affording new opportunities and enabling their participation.  These benefits, however, are not ...more

Today the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is publishing its General Comment 25 on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment, along with versions for children ...more

Children are turning to social media platforms, like Instagram, TikTok or Twitter, to voice their political views and express their activism. What does this tell ...more

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented challenge to countries worldwide. With the emerging need for “social distancing”, in the span of weeks, schools around the ...more

At a time so many everyday activities have gone online, parents are confronting the need to balance the desire to ensure children’s online participation and ...more

Given that the book Parenting for a Digital Future was published during COVID-19, Sonia Livingstone was delighted to be invited by Henry Jenkins to compare notes ...more

For a generation whose lives have become digital by default, national borders no longer represent the limits of experiences and actions. Their identities, forged through ...more

As most of the world went into various lockdowns as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the internet and social media provided a lifeline for ...more

With children growing up in ever-changing conditions in the digital age, digital parenting becomes more crucial than ever before. The predominant focus for parents, policy-makers, ...more

Children rely on digital technologies to stay in touch with friends and family but this has recently become even more prominent in a context of ...more