March 28, 2005
Photo Voice
Taking pictures/Taking action! Visual Methodologies in Working with Young People, Claudia Mitchell, McGill University; Relebohile Moletsane, Jean Stuart, Thabsile Buthelezi and Naydene de Lange, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Faculty of Education. To appear in Children First.
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March 18, 2005
Digital Girls Project
Digital Girls is a Canadian research project that brings together an international team of researchers, techno-geeks, tweens and teens, ethnographers, teachers, filmmakers and more who are interested in examining girls digital experiences.
* Critical examinations of “girls” and “girlhood”;
* Girls’ personal computer use and play—both on and offline;
* How girls are consumers and inventors in their creative use of technology;
* Various participatory approaches to social and cultural research;
* Ethical issues surrounding uses of technology;
* The complexities of technology-based experiences and the construction of social and personal meanings;
* Sexualities, bodies and identities;
* Safety on the net, digital divides, access, and other policy issues;
* Digital knowledge, literacies and education;
* Youth and technologies of communication;
* Games, gaming and gaming cultures;
Digital Girls not only examines Canadian, South African and British girls’ engagement with computer technology and digital culture as “knowers,” but also highlights the idea that young voices—and here specifically girls’ voices—need to be recognized, acknowledged, and given influence as citizens of a globally networked world.
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Children and the Internet - Some Resources
The Vanier Institute of the Family had a special theme issue on families and the internet with some useful background information.
An terrific research initiative by Sonia Livingstone at the LSE called UK Children Go Online: Emerging Opportunities and Dangers.
Conference last July in London: Digital Generations:
My project, Children, Young People, and New Media in the Home
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