Young Children's Rights in a Digital World: Play, Design and Practice

This volume focuses on young children's rights in a digital world, with research from around the globe that emphasizes their rights as agents and their right to protection from harm. The UN Digital Rights Framework of 2014 addresses children's needs, agency, and vulnerability to harm in the digital world and suggests roles and responsibilities for various social actors, including the state, families, schools, commercial entities, researchers, and children themselves. The book presents a broad range of research on parental supervision and control, changing forms of play, early childhood education, media and cultural studies, law, design, health, special-needs education, and engineering. It acknowledges that children of various ages, abilities, socioeconomic and geographic backgrounds should have equal access to and positive experiences with new digital technologies and content, with adult support and expertise that enhances these experiences.

Format: Hardback
Length: 341 pages
Publication date: 20 August 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This volume focuses on the rights of very young children (aged 0-8) in a digital world. It gathers current research from around the globe that explores young children's rights as active citizens in the provision and participation of digital devices and content, as well as their right to protection from harm. The United Nations Digital Rights Framework of 2014 addresses children's needs, agency, and vulnerability to harm in the digital age and outlines roles and responsibilities for various social actors, including the state, families, schools, commercial entities, researchers, and children themselves.

This volume presents a diverse range of research, including chapters on parental supervision and control, the changing forms of play, early childhood education, media and cultural studies, law, design, health, special-needs education, and engineering. Implicit within this book is the recognition that children of different ages, abilities, socioeconomic and geographic backgrounds should have equal access to and positive/non-harmful experiences with new digital technologies and content, as well as adult support and expertise that enhances these experiences.

This passionate book celebrates the diversity of young children's activities in the digital world. It interrogates these through four intersecting lenses: their rights, play experiences, contextualized design, and best practices. Balancing children's eager engagement with digital content alongside adult responsibilities for education, privacy, and protection, the volume provides a fitting showcase for work of global relevance.

Professor Lelia Green, Professor of Communications, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia

Weight: 705g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030659158
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021