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....

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....