Children Technology and Culture

<p>Childhood is increasingly saturated by technology: from television to the Internet, video games to 'video nasties', camcorders to personal computers. <em>Children, Technology and Culture</em> looks at the interplay of children and technology which poses critical questions for how we understand the nature of childhood in late modern society. This collection brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to address the following four aspects of this relationship between children and technology:<br>*children's access to technologies and the implications for social relationships<br>*the structural contexts of children's engagement with technologies with a focus on gender and the family<br>*the situatedness of children's interactions with technological objects<br>*the constitution of children and childhood through the mediations of technology<br> _ This book represents a substantial contribution to contemporary social scientific thinking both about the nature of children and childhood, the social impacts of technologies and the various relationships between the two.</p> 1. Bedroom Culture: Children's Changing Spaces for Engaging With Media: Sonia Livingstone; 2. Cyberkids: Children's Social Networks, 'Virtual Communities' and On-line Spaces: Gill Valentine, Sarah Holloway and Nick Bingham; 3. Media-Childhood in Three European Countries: Daniel Suess and Carmelo Garitonandia; 4. VideoGames: Between Parents and Children: Ferran Cass; 5. Screen Play: Children in 'techno-popular' Culture: Keri Factor and Ruth Furlong; 6. Situated Knowledge and Virtual Education: Problems with Children 'Learning' Through Interaction; Terry Hemmings, Dave Randall, Dave Francis, Liz Marr and Colin Divall 7. 'Bubble Dialogue' and Social Information Processing in Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties: Anne Jones and Emma Price; 8. Children, Evidence and Meditation: Nick Lee; 9. Internet Marketing: Virtual Exploitation? Thomas Lipinsky and Elizabeth Buchanan; 10.Childhood, Communications Policy and Governance: David Oswell; 11. Technologised Childhood? Ian Hutchby and Jo Moran-Ellis