Children and Young People's Digital Lifeworlds - Domestication, Mediation, and Agency

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.

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Authors: Chikezie Uzuegbunam, Chikezie E Uzuegbunam, Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2024
• EAN: 9783031513022
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3151302-2
• No. of pages: 223
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 17 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 430 g
• Illustrations: XXXIII, 223 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.
• Series: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Miscellaneous