New Technologies, Risks and Opportunities from Children's Perspectives

Authors

  • Ana Francisca Monteiro Universidade do Minho
  • António José Osório Universidade do Minho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.7049

Keywords:

Children, New technologies, Risks, Opportunities

Abstract

Assuming that children are active social agents who construct their owncultures, this research is focused on their perspective about the role that new technologies, particularly the Internet, have in their lives. Moreover, it aims to understand the opportunities, risks and safety challenges the use of digital technologies may represent, from the children's points of view. Based on an ethnographic approach, this article analyses children’s lived experiences ofusing digital media, taking into account the specific sociocultural contexts in which these occur. Thus, it considers how technology and social practices coconstructeach other. Its results portray the 'digital' cultures children arebuilding and the reinterpretations of opportunity, risk and safety that emerge within.

 

Keywords: Children; New technologies; Risks; Opportunities

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2015-06-30

How to Cite

Monteiro, A. F., & Osório, A. J. (2015). New Technologies, Risks and Opportunities from Children’s Perspectives. Portuguese Journal of Education, 28(1), 35–57. https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.7049

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Artigos

License

1. The authors preserve their authorship and grant the Portuguese Journal of Education the right to the first publication. The work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License that allows sharing the work with the acknowledgment of initial authorship and publication in this Journal.

2. The authors have the right to take additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the published version of their work (e.g. to deposit in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), acknowledging the initial authorship and publication in this Journal.

3. The authors have the permission and are stimulated to post their work online (e.g. in an institutional repository or on their personal website). They can do this at any phase of the editorial process, as it may generate productive changes, as well as increase impact and article citation (see The Open Citation Project).


Licença Creative Commons

The work is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)