Digital technologies, children and young people's relationships and self-care

A co-regulatory approach to stay safe online: reporting inappropriate content with the MediaKids mobile app

“…Children do not conceive mobile technologies as a separate entity, rather they consider them as natural components in a wide variety of media (Bond, 2014). It has been recently suggested that children and young people use social media to take care of themselves, engaging in a kind of "economy of dignity" (Wilson, 2015). Thus, mobile technologies have become a part of their identity, and they are being integrated into classrooms (Herro et al, 2014) and families -particularly the families of children with special needs (Meder and Wegner, 2015).…”

Young people's outdoor refuges: movements and (dis)entanglements

“…What is noteworthy is that these Danish youths are also choosing to be alone and outdoors, rather than merely alone and indoors. Children's all-embracing immersion in a digital world has blurred the lines between the physical and virtual domains of childhood, and point towards a need to reconsider our assumptions of children's spatial experiences (Rooney 2012;Wilson 2016).…”

“…Sources of music have previously been shown to have therapeutic applications (DeNora 2000), and a valuable means to help young people negotiate difficult social situations and enhance well-being (Wilson 2016). The inherent qualities of music is most likely at play in Naomi's report above, but the quote is also indicative of the power of music, which can enable one to govern one's ability to loosen knots with one world, while tightening them with another.…”

“…Young people's venues for refuge and safe spaces are not exclusive to the outdoors, and have been studied across a range of settings, including the physical space of home, grandparents' homes, school and other institutions, and parallel societies (see e.g. Brown 2017; Wasshede 2017; Gottzén and Sandberg 2017), as well as virtual spaces provided through digital technologies (Wilson 2016). The particular focus on outdoor refuges in this paper is connected with recent shifts in the spatial conditions that hallmark young people's outdoor lives.…”

Collapsing contexts: social networking technologies in young people’s nightlife

“…Nightlife activities increasingly emerge in digital spaces too. Amidst a growing interest in how digital technologies offer an expansion of young people's everyday worlds (Wilson 2016;Bond 2014;Boyd 2014;Ruckenstein 2013;Crowe and Bradford 2006;Valentine, Holloway, and Bingham 2000), one strand of research discusses young people's nightlife unfolding across social networking technologies (Lyons et al 2017;Niland et al 2014;Brown and Gregg 2012). It addresses young people's constructions of identities and belongings through capturing, sharing, re-sharing, commenting on, and re-living personal photographs depicting their alcohol consumption practices.…”