A Global Research Agenda for Children's Rights in the Digital Age

Abstract

Original citation:Livingstone, Sonia and Bulger , Monica E. (2014) A global research agenda for children's rights in the digital age. Journal of Children and Media, 8 (4 Biographical noteSonia Livingstone is a full professor in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She directs the EU Kids Online network of researchers examining children's online activities, risks and safety mediation in 33 countries. She is author or editor of 18 books on the subject of media audiences and children's media and digital activities.Dr. Monica Bulger is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University where she contributes policy research to multi-national groups such as UNICEF, ECPAT and the European Commission. Her recent work focuses on distinguishing risky internet use from actually harmful experiences and identifying the ways in which digital literacy can reduce harmful online experiences for young users globally. AbstractTaking the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as a starting point for evidencebased policy regarding children's rights in the digital age, we offer a global research agenda designed to produce evidence of value for policy makers working to promote children's rights. Informed by research reviews and interviews with international stakeholders, four priorities for theory and evidence are identified: (i) the provision of opportunities that confer benefit, recognising that this may be defined diversely according to the cultural context, (ii) the protection of children from risk of harm, including understanding the relation between vulnerability and resilience, (iii) the balance between risk and opportunities, especially to allow for children's participation even in risky opportunities, (iv) the framing of the research agenda (in terms of concepts, design, measures, and priorities) and the evaluation of policies and initiatives in collaboration with researchers and practitioners from the global South.2

Sex-Related Online Behaviors and Adolescents’ Body and Sexual Self-Perceptions

“…27 Scholars have consistently identified parents as protective factors in adolescents'sexual development when they provide structure (eg, by monitoring or rule-setting), support, and sexual information. 28,29 However, the extent to which they shape adolescents' online behaviors remains largely unknown.…”

Reframing media effects in terms of children’s rights in the digital age

“…Then, critics of what Moyn (2011) calls the human rights turn since the 1970s are concerned with the political difficulties that arise specifically from the move from evidence to advocacy. These difficulties are increasingly apparent when research and recommendations developed in the global North are applied with little local adaptation in the global South (Livingstone & Bulger, 2014). As Moyn observes of rights advocates' often-triumphalist narratives, "there is no way to move from announcing formal entitlements to securing real conditions for their enjoyment without acknowledging different possible paths and controversial political choices" (2011, p. 4).…”

La señalización de los contenidos en las principales cadenas de televisión españolas

“…En este sentido, destaca especialmente la intensa producción generada por el proyecto EuKids Online liderado durante varios años por Sonia Livingstone, parte del cual aborda de manera específica la cuestión regulatoria (Livingstone, 2014;Livingstone y Bulger, 2014). Desde los años sesenta, y especialmente a partir de la década de los ochenta, el tema también ha sido abordado en numerosos trabajos de compilación y revisión crítica (Livingstone y Haddon, 2009;Pereira, Pinto y Pereira, 2012;y Lemish, 2015).…”