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

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 bo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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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