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The technologisation of childhood? Young children and technology in the home

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Plowman L, McPake J & Stephen C (2010) The technologisation of childhood? Young children and technology in the home. Children and Society, 24 (1), pp. 63-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2008.00180.x

Abstract
We describe an eighteen-month empirical investigation of three- and four-year-old children¡¯s uses of technology at home, based on a survey of 346 families and 24 case studies. The findings are reported in the context of social commentators¡¯ anxieties about the ways in which childhood is being transformed by technology. Although we report evidence of some parental disquiet about the role of technology in children¡¯s lives we illustrate some of the complexities in families¡¯ attitudes to, and uses of, technology and conclude that it is not perceived by parents to be the threat to modern childhood that is claimed.

Keywords
children; technology; ICT; home; parents; childhood; Computers and children; Technology and children; Technology Study and teaching (Elementary); Children Research Methodology

Journal
Children and Society: Volume 24, Issue 1

StatusPublished
Publication date31/01/2010
Publication date online22/08/2008
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PublisherWiley-Blackwell / National Children's Bureau
ISSN0951-0605
eISSN1099-0860

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Dr Christine Stephen

Dr Christine Stephen

Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences

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