'Is Children's Digital Citizenship a Digital Straitjacket?'

Title
'Is Children's Digital Citizenship a Digital Straitjacket?'
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Simpson, Brian H
Editor
Editor(s): Rosemary Hunter
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Newcastle University
Place of publication
United Kingdom
UNE publication id
une:22947
Abstract
There has been some recent discussion in Australia and the UK about the need to better prepare children as 'digital citizens'. Much of this narrative speaks of children's rights, children's resilience and children being empowered - but empowered to do what? This paper casts a critical eye over some of this discussion and questions whether it places too much emphasis on what is 'appropriate' and 'inappropriate' in digital spaces and casts discussions of children's rights far too much around those notions. In the result it asks whether digital citizenship is just another term for 'well informed digital consumer' consistent with the general demise of real citizenship, and in effect preparing children for an adult world dominated by powerful technology corporations.
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Citation
p. 169-169
Start page
169
End page
169

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