Researching Everyday Childhoods: Time, Technology and Documentation in a Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9781350011731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Rachel Thomson; Liam Berriman; Sara Bragg

Opis

How is it possible to know about children's everyday lives in a digitally saturated world? What is it like to grow up in and through new media? What happens between the ages of 7 and 15 and does it make sense to think of 'maturation' as 'mediated'? These questions are explored in this innovative book, which synthesizes empirical documentation of children's everyday lives with discussions of key theoretical and methodological concepts to provide a unique guide to methods for researching childhood and youth, as well as theoretical and substantive insights into the field of digital childhoods. Researching Everyday Childhoods first introduces the reader to the idea of the 'post-empirical' as a framework for thinking about social research within a digital landscape, including the way in which the digital remakes childhood and youth. The key ideas of time, technology and documentation are introduced and woven throughout the book. Research led, the book is informed by two cutting-edge ESRC and AHRC-funded empirical studies - 'Face 2 Face' and 'Curating Childhoods' and links to a set of dynamic multi-media resources generated by the studies.