Full Description
How can we 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 open access book, which synthesizes empirical documentation of children's everyday lives with discussions of key theoretical and methodological concepts to provide a unique guide to researching childhood and youth. Researching Everyday Childhoods begins by asking what recent 'post-empirical' and 'post-digital' frameworks can offer researchers of children and young people's lives, particularly in researching and theorising how the digital remakes childhood and youth. The key ideas of time, technology and documentation are then introduced and are woven throughout the book's chapters. Research-led, the book is informed by two state of the art empirical studies - 'Face 2 Face' and 'Curating Childhoods' - and links to a dynamic multimedia archive generated by the studies.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University of Sussex, UK.
Contents
Foreword, David Buckingham
Acknowledgments
1. Everyday Childhoods: Time, Technology and Documentation, Rachel Thomson, Liam Berriman and Sara Bragg
2. Recipes for Documenting Everyday Lives and Times, Rachel Thomson with Susi Arnott, Lucy Hadfield, Mary Jane Kehily and Sue Sharpe
3. Protection, Participation and Ethical Labour, Rachel Thomson with Ester McGeeney
4. Spectacles of Intimacy: The Moral Landscape of Teenage Social Media, Liam Berriman and Rachel Thomson
5. Materialising Time: Toys, Memory and Nostalgia, Liam Berriman
6. The Work of Gender for Children: Now You See It Now You Don't, Rachel Thomson, Sara Bragg and Mary Jane Kehily
7. Tracing the Affects of Contemporary Schooling, Sara Bragg
8. Recipes for Co-Production with Children and Young People, Liam Berriman and Kate Howland with Fiona Courage
9. A Fellow Traveller: The Opening of an Archive for Secondary Analysis, Jette Kofoed
10. Researching as a Popular and professional Practice, Rachel Thomson
Appendix 1: The Story of the Study, Rachel Thomson
Appendix 2: The Cast, Liam Berriman
Glossary
References
Index
