In the data economy, childhood is a lucrative commodity.
The digital technologies that offer incredible possibilities for children's enrichment and empowerment also open avenues for their exploitation, denigration, criminalisation, and control. Coming to grips with this paradigm of technological benefits and harms requires a deepened understanding about how children's rights are engaged within a technocratic system that distributes costs and benefits unequally.
In the context of the altered flows of data and power in the digital age, Wendy O'Brien argues for a...
In the data economy, childhood is a lucrative commodity.
The digital technologies that offer incredible possibilities for children's enri...