How Children Act and Interact on the Internet

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CS Webcast Series: Active participation or just more information? Young people's take-up of opportunities to act and interact on the Internet

URL = http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20051011_101


Speakers

Sonia Livingstone (Professor of Social Psychology and a member of the Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science)

Ellen Helsper (PhD Student, London School of Economics and Political Science)


Abstract

This Webcast provides a discussion of some of the key issues identified through survey research on the use of the Internet by children. Interviews with children and parents provide higher quality data than is often available to address major controversies surrounding the opportunities and risks of Internet use by children.