Children and Young People¿s Digital Lifeworlds

Domestication, Mediation, and Agency
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-51302-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 223 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series

This book explores the ways in which adolescents in Nigeria domesticate technology and the role of digital gatekeepers such as parents, guardians, and teachers in their digital lifeworlds. Using a child-centred framework, what emerges is a rounded and textured analysis of how technology fits into pivotal aspects of the lives of teenagers. Here, teens are understood as ‘actors’ rather than just users of media and technology. The digital lifeworlds of young people in advanced economies of the Minority World are well researched. In contrast, research focusing on pre-teens’ and teenagers’ digital practices and participation in Majority World such as Africa, is still fundamentally narrow. The book is relevant to fields like sociology, media studies, youth studies, mobile media studies, African studies, and global media studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Uzuegbunam, Chikezie E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Researching children and young people’s digital lifeworlds.- 2. Context matters.- 3. Tracking research on children and the media.- 4. Navigating theoretical, methodological, and ethical interdependences in researching children.- 5. Children’s access and connection to digital technology.- 6. Domestication of technology in everyday life.- 7. Media proclivities, preferences, and perceptions of digital technology.- 8. “You cannot serve two masters at a time”.- 9. Precarious agency and the power of children with digital technology.- 10. A bricolage: Of summary, final thoughts, and recommendations.

Über Autor(innen)

Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam teaches media studies and is the MA programme coordinator in the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Cape Town, and publishes around digital media, young people and technology, communication studies, AI, and misinformation.