ISBN:
9780415236348
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (202 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Children, Technology and Culture : The Impacts of Technologies in Children's Everyday Lives
DDC:
305.231
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 context
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables and figures; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: Relating children, technology and culture; PART I New technologies, new childhoods?; 1 Home is where the hardware is: Young people, the domestic environment, and 'access' to new technologies; 2 Media childhood in three European countries; 3 Video games: Between parents and children; 4 'Technophobia': Parents' and children's fears about information and communication technologies and the transformation of culture and society; PART II Technologies in/as interaction
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Fabricating friendships: The ordinariness of agency in the social use of an everyday medical technology in the school lives of children6 Situated knowledge and virtual education: Some real problems with the concept of learning and interactive technology; 7 The moral status of technology: Being recorded, being heard, and the construction of concerns in child counselling; 8 Bubble dialogue: Using a computer application to investigate social information processing in children with emotional and behavioural difficulties; PART III Technologies and cultures of childhood
Description / Table of Contents:
9 The extensions of childhood: Technologies, children and independence10 Ethics and techno-childhood; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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