Eyouth: Balancing Between Opportunities and Risks

ISBN-13: 9789052017846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 296 str.

Heidi Vandebosch

Opis

The omnipresence of ICT in modern households has provided children and adolescents with plenty of opportunities for education, entertainment and contact. This young age group, however, is increasingly confronted with a range of online risks relating to personal contact and inappropriate content. This duality was the central thread of an international multidisciplinary conference from which this book presents a selection of excellent papers.
After providing the reader with a typology of the benefits of and threats arising from young people s internet use, the book elaborates on the issue of online access and the extent to which the young use ICT in their daily lives. The authors also consider the opportunities young people now have to use and produce online content, as well as the tremendous contact opportunities offered by social network sites. Alongside these opportunities, risks such as cyberbullying are examined too. The final part of the book is devoted to young people s empowerment and protection. The roles of parents, schools and governments are scrutinized in the context of allowing young people to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of the internet."

Spis treści

Contents: Michel Walrave: eYouth: Between Trust, Concerns and Science - Cédric Courtois/Peter Mechant/Steve Paulussen: The Media Richness of Flemish Teenagers: A Multi-method Approach to the Appropriation of Media Technologies - Périne Brotcorne: Digital Inequalities Among the Digital Native: The End of a Myth? - Joke Bauwens/Chris Vleugels: The Social Meaning of Young People's Online Creativity - Peter Thijssen: Youngsters and Online Political Participation: A Story in Need of Qualification - Rozane De Cock: Children and Online News: A Suboptimal Relationship: Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Flanders - Willem Oosting/Yvonne A.W. De Kort/Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn: Positive Parents Taking Action: Parental Mediation of Children's Digital Game-playing - Bernhard Goodwin/Nayla Fawzi: Cyberbullying Related Behaviour and Third-Person Effect - Ellen M. Kraft/Jinchang Wang: Students' Perspectives on Cyberbullying Prevention Practices - Iolanda Tortajada/Cilia Willem/Lucrezia Crescenzi/Núria Araüna/Itxaso Tellado: Fotologs and Love Socialisation Processes: A Conventional or a Transformative Model of Sexuality and Relationships? - Veronika Kalmus/Triin Roosalu: Institutional Filters on Children's Internet Use: An Additional Explanation of Cross-national Differences in Parental Mediation - Eva Lievens: Alternative Regulatory Instruments Versus Fundamental Rights: Match Made in Heaven or Recipe for Disaster? - Sun Sun Lim: Regulatory Initiatives for Managing Online Risks and Opportunities for Youths: The East Asian Experience.

O autorze

Michel Walrave is an associate professor at the University of Antwerp, where he is head of the Department of Communication Studies. He is responsible for the research group MIOS and his own research concerns ICT-related (privacy) risks.
Wannes Heirman is a researcher in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Antwerp. He is currently investigating young people's response to online marketing and privacy issues.
Sara Mels is project coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA).
Christiane Timmerman is director of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies at the University of Antwerp and former academic director of the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp.
Heidi Vandebosch is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Antwerp. Her main research interest is in cyber bullying amongst young people.