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UK Kids Online - Young people, media literacy and the digital divide

Policy focused on benefits of the European information society Challenge – to ensure children and young people ‘media literate’ Problems – digital inequality and exclusion; risk and safety Also – just what do we want for kids online? And from whom?.

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UK Kids Online - Young people, media literacy and the digital divide

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  1. Policy focused on benefits of the European information society Challenge – to ensure children and young people ‘media literate’ Problems – digital inequality and exclusion; risk and safety Also – just what do we want for kids online? And from whom? UK Kids Online - Young people, media literacy and the digital divide

  2. A thematic network examining European research on cultural, contextual and risk issues in children's safe use of the internet and new media Funded by the EC Safer Internet plus Programme (2006-9) Aims to compare recent and ongoing empirical research in 18 member states Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK identify and evaluate available data on children’s use of online technologies inform the research agenda, noting gaps in the evidence base compare findings across Europe, contextualising similarities and differences produce a best practice guide for methodological issues and challenges develop policy recommendations for awareness-raising and media literacy EU Kids Online

  3. UK 9-19 year olds who use the internet at least once a week (N=1511, 2004) 90% do schoolwork 94% search for information 72% send/receive email 70% play games 55% instant messaging 55% (aged 12+) visit civic/political site 46% download music 44% (12+) search careers/education 44% completed a quiz 40% (12+) search goods/shop online UK Children Go Online • 40% visit sites for hobbies • 34% made a website • 26% (12+) read the news • 28% visiting sports sites • 25% (12+) seek personal advice • 23% info on computers/internet • 22% voted for something online • 21% visit chat rooms • 17% post pictures or stories • 10% visit a porn site on purpose

  4. MySpace 5.2 million UK users, Bebo 2.7 million; internationally, 12-17 year olds make up 12% MySpace traffic, 14% Facebook … USA 13-18 yrs: 75 ‘friends’ on average (SNS), 52 IM buddies, 38 mobile contacts Pew/Internet 2007: 55% online teens have SNS profile, mixing genuine and false info; to stay in touch with people they know (91%) and make new friends (49%) Latest fad or exciting potential worth capitalising on? Little UK research … Social networking – the latest trend

  5. What do we want for children online?

  6. Contents Services Public sector PSB (TV/educational) content Children’s search engines Museums, NASA, etc Youth helplines/ advice Civic/participation sites E-learning provision etc. etc. Private sector Google Earth Children’s portals Wikipedia Multiplayer games TV/film/sport-related sites Search engines (Google) etc. etc. And what about: Neopets, Limewire, MSN, Habbo Hotel, LiveJournal, MySpace, Deviant art, and the many gaming sites, fanzines and more? Scoping what’s available …

  7. Children should have content of high quality made specifically for them, and which does not exploit them. In addition to entertaining, this should allow children to develop physically, mentally and socially to their fullest potential Children should hear, see and express themselves, their culture, their languages and their life experiences, through online content and services which affirms their sense of self, community and place Children's content should promote an awareness and appreciation of other cultures in parallel with the child's own cultural background Children's content should be wide-ranging in genre and content, but should not include gratuitous scenes of violence and sex Children's content should be readily available to children and distributed via widely accessible media or technologies Sufficient funds must be made available to make these contents and services to the highest possible standards Governments, production, distribution and funding organisations should recognise both the importance and vulnerability of indigenous children's content, and take steps to support and protect it. A Children’s Internet Charter?

  8. Thank you For more information, contact Sonia Livingstone (s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk) or see www.children-go-online.net www.eukidsonline.net

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