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Parenting for a Digital Future… the book!

This post introduces our forthcoming book, Parenting for a digital future: How hopes and fears about technology shape our children’s lives. Based on in-depth interviews of British parents, educators and children, we ask how parents are tackling the challenges of the digital media landscape. We identified three main approaches to digital parenting, ’embracing’, ‘challenging’ and ‘resisting’, that were adopted by groups of parent across different backgrounds. Sonia Livingstone is Professor of […]

November 7th, 2018|Featured, Our publications|0 Comments|
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    Parent as field collaborator when interviewing the pre-verbal and early verbal child

Parent as field collaborator when interviewing the pre-verbal and early verbal child

This post by Donell Holloway and Kylie Stevenson explores research strategies developed for the Toddlers and Tablets project. They explain two strategies developed for parent and child interviews through understandings of parent and child proximities. By taking advantage of the social and physical world that pre-verbal and early verbal children live in, the researchers are able to use their everyday home […]

July 18th, 2018|Featured, Research shows...|0 Comments|
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Making the internet safer for children: the global evidence

On Safer Internet Day 2018, Global Kids Online partners recognise the pressing need to research and support children’s rights in a digital age. Mariya Stoilova argues here that to harness the positive potential of children’s internet use and to limit the harm, it is vital to understand how children are developing digital skills and citizenship, and to use the […]

February 9th, 2018|Featured, Our publications|0 Comments|
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    In the digital home, how do parents support their children and who supports them?

In the digital home, how do parents support their children and who supports them?

Today is Safer Internet Day, a day when the international community of industry, NGOs, parenting advocates, educators, researchers, parents and young people celebrate what’s good about the internet, and issues a call to action to create a “better internet for everyone, in particular the youngest users.” What better time to take stock of how parents and children are finding […]

February 6th, 2018|Featured, Our publications|0 Comments|
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    More hate speech and hateful content for Italian children online

More hate speech and hateful content for Italian children online

The latest EU Kids Online Survey in Italy investigates how children experience harmful content online, including feeling upset, uncomfortable or scared. Because the number of children who have felt bothered by something online has more than doubled since 2010,  Giovanna Mascheroni explores what action must be taken to educate and protect against such abuse. Giovanna is Lecturer in Sociology […]

January 31st, 2018|Featured, Our publications|0 Comments|
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Parenting for a Digital Future 2017 Roundup

[Header image credit: I. Turk, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]

As the year winds to a close we look back and we look forward. Back, to the posts and debates we’ve recently shared questioning the legal ramifications of sharenting, whether children should learn to code, and how to tell your child’s school to check the evidence if they tell you tech is to be […]

December 21st, 2017|Featured, Reflections|0 Comments|
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    Challenges of parental responsibility in the digital age: A global perspective

Challenges of parental responsibility in the digital age: A global perspective

Sunday was Human Rights Day and Sonia Livingstone and Jasmine Byrne are discussing the global digital parenting divide. Presenting data from several countries of the Global Kids Online project, this post asks how can we support parents to support children around the world? Sonia is Professor of Social Psychology at LSE’s Department of Media and Communications and has more than 25 years of experience […]

December 13th, 2017|Featured, Our publications|0 Comments|
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    Kids’ screen time shifts dramatically toward phones and tablets

Kids’ screen time shifts dramatically toward phones and tablets

How has children’s media use evolved over time? Common Sense Media published their latest zero to eight study in October, and in this post Michael Robb discusses the key findings. Michael is director of research at Common Sense, overseeing the research program, evaluation of organization impact, and program development research. He has published research on the impact of electronic media […]

November 15th, 2017|Featured, Research shows...|0 Comments|
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    Children’s digital opportunities – perspectives from around the world

Children’s digital opportunities – perspectives from around the world

The “Parenting for a Digital Future” blog has tried to capture the diversity of families’ experiences with the internet around the world by including reflections on fieldwork conducted in many different countries. In this post, Sonia Livingstone, Dafna Lemish and Sun Sun Lim highlight what they learned from working with researchers from several continents to understand the emerging nature […]

November 1st, 2017|Featured, Our publications, Research shows...|0 Comments|
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Back to school with Parenting for a Digital Future

September is here, and with it comes the beginning of another school year. While the end of summer might mean less free time for children to ‘loaf’ in front of a screen, the demands of school life mean that children and parents will continue to confront issues surrounding digital media use, including balancing screen time and internet privacy and […]

September 13th, 2017|Featured, Reflections|0 Comments|
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