DigiPlay 3: Leisure Constraints, Entitlement and Access to Technologies of Leisure

Greenbank Building,
University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Weds 15th Sept 2004

Children’s Voices on the Net: A creative presentation of qualitative findings from the ‘UK Children Go Online’ project’

Magadelene Bober
London School of Economics and Political Science
M.Bober@lse.ac.uk

This creative presentation is a 'virtual tour of the internet' as it is used and seen by children, accompanied by their own voices. The presentation will use a range of audio-visual materials, made for and by children, collected during research for the 'UK Children Go Online' project, including: audio recordings of interviews with children and young people, talking about the internet chat room conversations and message board postings collected on a website specifically set up for this project mind maps and images about the internet drawn by children websites and other online content made for, and by, children and young people This e-society (ESRC)-funded research project, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science, explores the nature, meaning and contexts of 9-19 year olds' internet use, including the terms in which they discuss internet-related contents and activities, as well as their capacity to navigate and critically evaluate the internet (see www.children-go-online.net).

Magdalena Bober works as a Research Officer on the 'UK Children Go Online' project at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She studied Media & Communications at Mainz University in Germany and Mass Communication Research at the University of Leicester. In her previous research, at Manchester Metropolitan University, she investigated youth culture on the internet with a focus on personal homepages made by young people, teenage websites and online communities.

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