New working paper “Combining innovative methodological tools to approach digital transformations in leisure among children and young people”
Our latest working paper presents an innovative multimodal approach to investigating how digital transformation affects children and young people’s free time using: Analysis of secondary data from Children’s World DatabaseInterviews with children aged 10-15 from...
New policy brief “Digital citizenship policy analysis”
Our second DigiGen policy brief critically assesses over forty policy documents relating to digital citizenship from Estonia, Greece, and the United Kingdom. This analysis explores how digital citizenship is being constructed by different policy actors across Europe....
New working paper “Integration of digital technologies in families with children aged 5-10 years”
Our latest working paper presents a synthesis report based on case studies from Austria, Estonia, Norway, and Romania from our previous working paper. This research allows us to understand further how technological transformations are affecting family life across...
What should ‘digital literacy’ look like in an age of algorithms and AI? Neil Selwyn
By Neil Selwyn, professor at the faculty of education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Children and young people have long been expected to develop digital skills and knowledge relevant to the technologies of their time. During the 1980s this took the form of...
New working paper “Multimodal research: youth becoming digital citizens”
Our latest working paper presents multimodal research exploring young people’s experience of civic participation and digital technologies. 12 young people aged between 15 and 18 from Estonia, Greece, and the United Kingdom share their experience of digital activism...
New working paper examines how technological transformation is affecting family life in Austria, Estonia, Norway, and Romania
Our latest working paper presents insights into family life in the digital era through ethnographic case studies from Austria, Estonia, Norway, and Romania. As the ‘Digital Generation’, children and young people are immersed in digital technologies (DT) in their...
Children and young people’s wishes for their current or future life in the digital age
To mark the festive period, the DigiGen team has put together a selection of children and young people’s wishes for the digital age. These quotes come from interviews conducted in Norway, Germany, Romania, and Estonia. As is apparent below, some children and...
DigiGen’s interactive map of ICT usage by children and young people
By Maria Symeonaki, Associate Professor of Social Statistics, Director of the Social Statistics and Data Analysis Laboratory, Department of Social Policy, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences If a picture is worth a thousand words, one could argue that...
Reflections on parent-child relationships online- BIK Youth Ambassador, Yevgeny
COFACE Families Europe marked International Children’s Day 2021 with a policy and advocacy session on ‘parent-child relationships in the digital era’. In this session, DigiGen researchers Merike Sisask and Olaf Kapella presented findings from Work Package 3 on ‘ICT in...
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870548.
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