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Internet, children and space: Revisiting generational attributes and boundaries
Journal Title
New Media and Society
Year (definitive publication)
2015
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Abstract
At the dawn of modernity, in the 18th century, space became a critical category in defining generational attributes and locations. However, borders that previously tightly isolated adults and children are nowadays continuously challenged and modified by
a constant and ubiquitous use of new information and communication technologies, namely the Internet, blurring notions of ‘private’ and ‘public’, ‘outdoors’ and ‘indoors’, ‘real’ and ‘virtual’. Giving voice to children, this article explores qualitative empirical data from a research project carried out in Portugal. It focuses on children as subjects and actors of these processes, especially in the way they combine ‘real’ and ‘virtual’
space and place in a geography of their own.
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Keywords
Children,Communication,Everyday life,Internet,Social networks
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Media and Communications - Social Sciences
