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Children’s Online Behaviour and Safety

Policy and Rights Challenges

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Andy Phippen

    1. Plymouth Business School, School of Management, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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  • Provides a timely intervention into the debate on young people and online safety
  • Offers clear policy recommendations and advice for schools
  • Covers a range of topics including gaming and sexting

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. What Do We Mean by “Child Online Safety”?

    • Andy Phippen
    Pages 1-13

  3. Public Concern and the Policy “Solution”

    • Andy Phippen
    Pages 15-41

  4. Young People and Digital Lives

    • Andy Phippen
    Pages 43-62

  5. Gaming: Violent Content = Violent Children?

    • Andy Phippen
    Pages 63-79

  6. Sexting: “The Teen Epidemic”

    • Andy Phippen
    Pages 81-99

  7. How Big is the Gulf?

    • Andy Phippen
    Pages 101-130

  8. Where Next?

    • Andy Phippen
    Pages 131-142

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 143-155
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About this book

This book explores the use of technology in young people’s social lives against a backdrop of “online safety measures” put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services. The UK landscape is used as a case study to compare the grass roots of digital behaviours with attempts by policy makers to control access and prohibit “bad” behaviours. In conducting an analysis of current UK policy positions and media perspectives against ethnographic research in areas such as gaming and sexting, the book highlights the flaws in approaching the control of disruptive social behaviours using prohibitive approaches. It also highlights the gulf between the experiences of young people and the capabilities of the school system to deliver effective education around safe online behaviours. The author illustrates the complex relationship young people have with technology, as active engagers rather than passive consumers, and looks at the ways in which their needs for effective education and resilience are currently not being met. Furthermore, he demonstrates how, in an effort to make them safe, stakeholders are eroding children’s fundamental rights.

Children’s Online Behaviour and Safety will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and students researching and practicing in education, sociology, children’s law, children’s digital rights and social policy. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Plymouth Business School, School of Management, Plymouth, United Kingdom

    Andy Phippen

About the author

Andy Phippen is Professor of Children and Technology at Plymouth University, UK. He has worked with children and young people for over 15 years, exploring their use of digital technology. He has published widely and has made frequent media and policy contributions in the area. 

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