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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1935| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Social Sciences Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | The technologisation of childhood? Young children and technology in the home |
| Author(s): | Plowman, Lydia McPake, Joanna Stephen, Christine |
| Contact Email: | lydia.plowman@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | children technology ICT home parents childhood Computers and children Technology and children Technology Study and teaching (Elementary) Children Research Methodology |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2010 |
| Date Deposited: | 22-Dec-2009 |
| Citation: | Plowman L, McPake J & Stephen C (2010) The technologisation of childhood? Young children and technology in the home. Children and Society, 24 (1), pp. 63-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2008.00180.x |
| Abstract: | We describe an eighteen-month empirical investigation of three- and four-year-old children’s uses of technology at home, based on a survey of 346 families and 24 case studies. The findings are reported in the context of social commentators’ anxieties about the ways in which childhood is being transformed by technology. Although we report evidence of some parental disquiet about the role of technology in children’s lives we illustrate some of the complexities in families’ attitudes to, and uses of, technology and conclude that it is not perceived by parents to be the threat to modern childhood that is claimed. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2008.00180.x |
| Rights: | Published in Children and Society. Copyright: Wiley-Blackwell / National Children's Bureau.; The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com; Rights as indicated by Exclusive Licence Form: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/CHSO_CAF.pdf |
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