Children, Technology and Culture: The impacts of technologies in children’s everyday lives

Childhood is increasingly saturated by technology: from television to the Internet, video games to ‘video nasties’, camcorders to personal computers. Many companies now engage in the development of specifically child-orientated technologies such as computer software packages. Children engage with and exercise competence in a whole range of technologies in the home, at school and in the public social world. Children, Technology and Culture looks at the interplay of children and technology which poses critical questions for how we understand the nature of childhood in late modern society. This collection brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to further our understanding of the theoretical implications and methodological consequences of exploring the relationships between children and technology. The book addresses four aspects of this relationship: *children’s access to technologies and the implications for social relationships *the structural contexts of children’s engagement with technologies with a focus on gender and the family *the situatedness of children’s interactions with technological objects *the constitution of children and childhood through the mediations of technology Childhood studies is an area of increasing interest in various disciplines from sociology to social work, education to anthropology. This valuable new book will be of interest to students studying in these areas, as well as practitioners in the social, child and youth services and NGOs who focus on children.