Meneses, J. & Momino, J. (n.d.) "Digital inequalities in children and young people: A technological matter", Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/0/36/38359326.pdf [Accessed 18/03/2009].
In the past few decades many studies have led to consider youth and childhood as homogeneous groups, who are constantly in the process of becoming rather than being. The study of relationship between childhood and technology has been dominated for a long time by deterministic and simplistic theories. To study this relationship further the article aims to understand present and future consequences of the unequal division of technology between children and young people in the case of the internet.
The authors ask the question “is there sustained evidence regarding the effects of individual differences on the appropriation of the internet?" and look at what degree a young person's academic performance can be linked with their access to the internet, as well as sex, age and language. Specific attention is given to internet use for academic and leisure purposes and the authors propose a complex analysis to look at the relationship in depth.
The article concludes that better academics are more connected and use the internet for academic purposes as heavy internet users outside the school are better skilled. The question of digital inequality is not just technological, and must take social-construction processes into account. Therefore access to the internet responds to different ways of appropriation.
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009
W8 - Converged Media: Abstract 4
Prensky, M. (2004) "The Emerging Online Life of the Digital Native: What they do differently because of technology, and how they do it", Marc Prensky, http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky-The_Emerging_Online_Life_of_the_Digital_Native-03.pdf [Accessed 18/03/2009].
There are many changes going on today which signify that the Digital natives generation is moving ahead in its own direction. It's headed into incorporating digital technology into life in new, unexpected ways. Some digital immigrants are afraid of new technologies and question their value, but natives will never go back to their old ways. The article discusses how digital natives exchange, create, learn, search, meet, co-ordinate and evaluate differently to digital immigrants. Prensky considers letter-writing to be an out-moded form of communication and adds that technology has changed an entire generation's behaviour. Behaviours change rapidly today because technology changes and digital natives want to keep up with it. For adults, they may see some digital native behaviours as worth adopting, some strange, and some forever out of reach given their pre-digital "accents".
There are many changes going on today which signify that the Digital natives generation is moving ahead in its own direction. It's headed into incorporating digital technology into life in new, unexpected ways. Some digital immigrants are afraid of new technologies and question their value, but natives will never go back to their old ways. The article discusses how digital natives exchange, create, learn, search, meet, co-ordinate and evaluate differently to digital immigrants. Prensky considers letter-writing to be an out-moded form of communication and adds that technology has changed an entire generation's behaviour. Behaviours change rapidly today because technology changes and digital natives want to keep up with it. For adults, they may see some digital native behaviours as worth adopting, some strange, and some forever out of reach given their pre-digital "accents".
W8 - Converged Media: Abstract 3
Campbell, M. (2005) "The impact of the mobile phone on young people's social life", QUT ePrints, http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00003492/01/3492.pdf [Accessed 18/03/2009].
The mobile phone has impacted on young people’s peer groups enabling a truly networked society. It has also impacted on family relationships, as it gives increased negotiating power to children with regard to curfews, safety issues and freedoms. It also allows "remote mothering" where parents can have more freedoms but are reachable via a mobile phone in the event of an emergency. There is controversy over the age in which an adolescent needs a mobile phone, this study suggests that this is the age of twelve as children enter adolescence. The use of mobile phones in schools and the disruptions that this can cause resulting in negative educational outcomes is addressed. The subject of mobile phone use in schools has not been been widely researched and is a topic of further discussion as it has the potential to cause many problems in the future.
The mobile phone has impacted on young people’s peer groups enabling a truly networked society. It has also impacted on family relationships, as it gives increased negotiating power to children with regard to curfews, safety issues and freedoms. It also allows "remote mothering" where parents can have more freedoms but are reachable via a mobile phone in the event of an emergency. There is controversy over the age in which an adolescent needs a mobile phone, this study suggests that this is the age of twelve as children enter adolescence. The use of mobile phones in schools and the disruptions that this can cause resulting in negative educational outcomes is addressed. The subject of mobile phone use in schools has not been been widely researched and is a topic of further discussion as it has the potential to cause many problems in the future.
W8 - Converged Media: Abstract 2
Brandtzæg, P. (2008) "Media technology and different patterns of use among children between 7 to 12 years in Norway", Forsiden - SINTEF, http://www.sintef.no/digitalbarndom/Brandtz%C3%A6g_pattern%20of%20use%20in%20Norway.pdf [Accessed 18/03/2009].
The children of Norway are said to live in a "digital society". This study looks at the use of new media technology in Norwegian schools, with children aged between 7 and 12 years of age (2nd, 5th, 6th & 7th grade). 1112 children completed a form which asked about their game-playing habits, their use of the internet, computers, mobile phones and television. Results indicate that children use new media technology in various different ways. The researchers created four "patterns of use" groups of media technology uses amongst children: 1) non-users, 2) entertainment users, 3) heavy users and 4) utility users. The most notable results were that children in the age groups do not employ new media technologies to a significant extent, and a large gap is present between boys and girls within media usage.
W8 - Converged Media: Abstract 1
Livingstone, S. (2003) "Children's Use of the Internet: Reflections on the Emerging Research Agenda", New Media & Society, Vol. 5 (2), pp. 147-166.
Article identifies the increased domestic access to the internet in mass English-speaking markets such as Europe and North America, focusing on children and young people. Children's internet use generates concerns within the public which can create research topics but also undermine them. Opportunities for further research are further identified, research on children and the internet must go beyond access to examine the nature and quality of their internet use. There is a small amount of previous research and author believes that key questions within this area are now begun to be addressed. Opportunities and dangers of internet use identified as communication, identity and participation, education, learning, dangers of use, dangers of exclusion and the digital divide. There is a small amount of previous research and key questions within this area are now addressed. To guide research on these issues in the years to come, this article has also identified an emerging theoretical framework together with pressing methodological and policy-related challenges facing the field.
Article identifies the increased domestic access to the internet in mass English-speaking markets such as Europe and North America, focusing on children and young people. Children's internet use generates concerns within the public which can create research topics but also undermine them. Opportunities for further research are further identified, research on children and the internet must go beyond access to examine the nature and quality of their internet use. There is a small amount of previous research and author believes that key questions within this area are now begun to be addressed. Opportunities and dangers of internet use identified as communication, identity and participation, education, learning, dangers of use, dangers of exclusion and the digital divide. There is a small amount of previous research and key questions within this area are now addressed. To guide research on these issues in the years to come, this article has also identified an emerging theoretical framework together with pressing methodological and policy-related challenges facing the field.
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