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For a generation whose lives have become digital by default, national borders no longer represent the limits of experiences and actions.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

When children use the internet they encounter both risks and opportunities but their ability to self-regulate their media use and avoid the negative effects makes ...more

Once again, children are trying to learn from home, often on an inadequate device and with hard-pressed and under-supporting parents struggling to cope. Even for ...more

A new year has just begun, many of us find ourselves caught in new or ongoing restrictions of our working and social lives. With schools ...more

Schools have an important role to play in young people’s social and emotional development, as well as their academic learning. Yet, in spite of recent ...more

Our reliance on internet technologies increased as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed and with it concerns from parents, teachers, and governments that our digitally-mediated lives might ...more

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, a flood of advice about digital technologies is adding to the demands on parents to manage family life, money, health, ...more

Individuals with disabilities make up 15% of the global population, or approximately 1 billion people. There are an estimated 93–150 million children with disabilities globally, ...more

As families grind into another school year with children spending large chunks of leisure and learning time in front of screens, parents are asking themselves ...more

How can we help young children make sense of long-term separations from friends or family who are self-isolating when we ourselves don’t know how long ...more

Digital technologies can offer new opportunities for participation and education but our recent experiment with home learning during the COVID-19 lockdown raised new concerns about ...more

Young people rarely get to talk about what they think about ‘sexy’ media – the common message is that sexualised media is always harmful and ...more