Recognizing children's rights in relation to digital technologies : challenges of voice and evidence, principle and practice

Amanda Third, Sonia Livingstone, Gerison Lansdown

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Abstract

In an era of rapid technological change characterized by the growth of online digital networks, the adoption of and increasing reliance on mobile and social media, and a host of associated technological opportunities and risks, it is becoming clear that children's rights are both realized and infringed in new ways. Crucially, digital media are no longer luxuries, but are rapidly becoming essentials of modern existence - and this applies increasingly in the Global South as well as the global North. Children are at the forefront of trends in digital uptake globally, with an estimated one in three worldwide already using the Internet. Much future growth in Internet use will occur in the global South, where children constitute between one-third and a half of the population; thus the proportion of users under the age of 18 is set to grow significantly. In tandem, challenges associated with digital media are now becoming acute in the Global South in the wake of the rapid uptake of digital media, particularly via mobile platforms.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology: Global Politics, Law and International Relations
EditorsBen Wagner, Matthias C. Kettemann, Kilian Vieth
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing
Pages376-410
Number of pages35
ISBN (Electronic)9781785367724
ISBN (Print)9781785367717
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Keywords

  • children
  • digital media
  • human rights

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