Children and Young People’s Digital Lifeworlds - Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam

Children and Young People’s Digital Lifeworlds

Domestication, Mediation, and Agency
Buch | Hardcover
XXXIII, 223 Seiten
2024 | 2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-51302-2 (ISBN)
128,39 inkl. MwSt

This book explores the ways in which adolescents in Nigeria domesticate technology and the role of digital gatekeepers such as parents, guardians, and teachers in their digital lifeworlds. Using a child-centred framework, what emerges is a rounded and textured analysis of how technology fits into pivotal aspects of the lives of teenagers. Here, teens are understood as 'actors' rather than just users of media and technology. The digital lifeworlds of young people in advanced economies of the Minority World are well researched. In contrast, research focusing on pre-teens' and teenagers' digital practices and participation in Majority World such as Africa, is still fundamentally narrow. The book is relevant to fields like sociology, media studies, youth studies, mobile media studies, African studies, and global media studies.


Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam teaches media studies and is the MA programme coordinator in the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Cape Town, and publishes around digital media, young people and technology, communication studies, AI, and misinformation.


1. Researching children and young people's digital lifeworlds.- 2. Context matters.- 3. Tracking research on children and the media.- 4. Navigating theoretical, methodological, and ethical interdependences in researching children.- 5. Children's access and connection to digital technology.- 6. Domestication of technology in everyday life.- 7. Media proclivities, preferences, and perceptions of digital technology.- 8. "You cannot serve two masters at a time".- 9. Precarious agency and the power of children with digital technology.- 10. A bricolage: Of summary, final thoughts, and recommendations.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series
Zusatzinfo XXXIII, 223 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte Agency • Digital Natives • digital repertoires • Digital technology • Domestication of technology • Media Literacy • Millenials
ISBN-10 3-031-51302-9 / 3031513029
ISBN-13 978-3-031-51302-2 / 9783031513022
Zustand Neuware
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