The Right to Security of Online Childhood

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ID12192079
AutoresDeborah De Felice (0000-0003-3979-8016, Assistant Professor of Sociology of Law, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania, Italy, [email protected], autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume25
Fascículo3-4
Páginas573-598
Data de publicação2017-11-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe International Journal of Children s Rights (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0927-5568 • E-ISSN: 1571-8182
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/15718182-02503001
OpenAlexW2797432520
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas22

The complex relationship between children online and digital technologies is the starting point of this reflection of a growing process of multidisciplinary theoretical attention to building children’s biographies. On the one hand, the concepts of “risk and childhood safety” have become increasingly central in institutional discourses. The content of this attention seems, however, to assume more the form of adults’ fears, dealing with an endless struggle for a utopian safety for their children, than the reality of what really can be a “risk” for children online. On the other hand, the current changes in the representations of childhood are increasingly oriented to a vision of the child as the subject of its own history and therefore more active and participatory. This makes it difficult to manage the distinction between adults and children and is problematic for the use of traditional parenting styles. Starting from a reflection on the main theoretical perspectives that have been compared on the issues of social change, this paper aims to clarify and problematise some of the paradoxes that accompany what has been said relating to children’s safety in the so-called second modernity, compared to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the powerful entry of technology digital science in familial contexts

Citizen journalism · Convention on the Rights of the Child · Human rights · Modernity · Multidisciplinary approach · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Child Development and Digital Technology · Children's Rights and Participation · Computer Science · Law · Psychology · Social Media and Politics