Children, Risk and Safety on the Internet : : Research and Policy Challenges in Comparative Perspective / / ed. by Sonia Livingstone, Leslie Haddon, Anke Görzig.

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• MitwirkendeR: Barbovschi, Monica,; Bauwens, Joke,; Blinka, Lukáš,; Casado, Miguel Ángel,; Donoso, Verónica,; Dürager, Andrea,; Galácz, Anna,; Garitaonandia, Carmelo,; Garmendia, Maialen,; Görzig, Anke,; Haddon, Leslie,; Hasebrink, Uwe,; Helsper, Ellen,; Kalmus, Veronika,; Karakuş, Türkan,; Kaşikçi, Duygu,; Kirwil, Lucyna,; Kredens, Elodie,; Kuiper, Els,; Kupiainen, Reijo,; Kurşun, Engin,; Lampert, Claudia,; Laouris, Yiannis,; Laszlo, Eva,; Laurinavičius, Alfredas,; Livingstone, Sonia,; Lobe, Bojana,; Marinescu, Valentina,; Martínez, Gemma,; Mascheroni, Giovanna,; Murru, Maria Francesca,; Nikunen, Kaarina,; Ogan, Christine,; O’Neill, Brian,; Pasquier, Dominique,; Paus-Hasebrink, Ingrid,; Ponte, Cristina,; Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Pille,; Rovolis, Antonis,; Runnel, Pille,; Segers, Katia,; Siibak, Andra,; Simões, José Alberto,; Sonck, Nathalie,; Staksrud, Elisabeth,; Stald, Gitte,; Suoninen, Annikka,; Ságvári, Bence,; Tsaliki, Liza,; Ustinavičiūtė, Laura,; Vandoninck, Sofie,; Velicu, Anca,; de Haan, Jos,; d’Haenens, Leen,; von Feilitzen, Cecilia,; Çağiltay, Kürşat,; Ólafsson, Kjartan,; Šmahel, David,; Žukauskienė, Rita,
• HerausgeberIn: Görzig, Anke,; Haddon, Leslie,; Livingstone, Sonia,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

As internet use is extending to younger children, there is an increasing need for research focus on the risks young users are experiencing, as well as the opportunities, and how they should cope. With expert contributions from diverse disciplines and a uniquely cross-national breadth, this timely book examines the prospect of enhanced opportunities for learning, creativity and communication set against the fear of cyberbullying, pornography and invaded privacy by both strangers and peers. Based on an impressive in-depth survey of 25,000 children carried out by the EU Kids Online network, it offers wholly new findings that extend previous research and counter both the optimistic and the pessimistic hype. It argues that, in the main, children are gaining the digital skills, coping strategies and social support they need to navigate this fast-changing terrain. But it also identifies the struggles they encounter, pinpointing those for whom harm can follow from risky online encounters. Each chapter presents new findings and analyses to inform both researchers and students in the social sciences and policy makers in government, industry or child welfare who are working to enhance children's digital experiences.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Theoretical framework for children’s internet use -- Methodological framework: the EU Kids Online project -- Cognitive interviewing and responses to EU Kids Online survey questions -- Which children are fully online? -- Varieties of access and use -- Online opportunities -- Digital skills in the context of media literacy -- Between public and private: privacy in social networking sites -- Experimenting with the self online: a risky opportunity -- Young Europeans’ online environments: a typology of user practices -- Bullying -- ‘Sexting’: the exchange of sexual messages online among European youth -- Pornography -- Meeting new contacts online -- Excessive internet use among European children -- Coping and resilience: children’s responses to online risks -- Agents of mediation and sources of safety awareness: a comparative overview -- The effectiveness of parental mediation -- Effectiveness of teachers’ and peers’ mediation in supporting opportunities and reducing risks online -- Understanding digital inequality: the interplay between parental socialisation and children’s development -- Similarities and differences across Europe -- Mobile access: different users, different risks, different consequences? -- Explaining vulnerability to risk and harm -- Relating online practices, negative experiences and coping strategies -- Towards a general model of determinants of risk and safety -- Policy implications and recommendations: now what? -- Appendix: Key variables used in EU Kids Online analyses -- Index