DIGITISING EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS Contemporary 0-8 year olds are inventing what it is to have a digital childhood, and in doing so are introducing families, schools and policy makers to new ways of thinking, doing and being. This conference constructs a research trajectory through these uncertainties and also aims to build bridges across the different discipline interests and many strands of research in this area. It will forge a new way forward and consolidate the base of what we already know, revealing what we have yet to investigate and address. Keynote Speakers Professor Sonia Livingstone Professor Jackie Marsh Dr Donell Holloway Dr Brian O’Neill Professor Lelia Green Professor Caroline Barrett-Pugh Assoc. Professor Tama Leaver Abstracts (350 words) and panel proposals should be sent to digitisingearlychildhood@ecu.edu.au by 31st March 2017. This conference welcomes papers that address the broadest possible construction of early childhood and the digital. There will be some publication opportunities and refereed outputs. Topics may include, but are by no means restricted to, the following: • Digitisation of early childhood education • Literacies at home and school • Research methods with very young children • Policies, regulations and guidelines • Children and their data • Parenting the digital child • Children’s culture • Cultural difference and digital children • Risks and benefits • Changing discourses of childhood • Privacy, security and children’s rights • Designing digital experiences for children • The child in the digital public sphere • Online activism and children • Gendering (or not) the digital child Conference Location: Perth, Western Australia; 11th – 15th September 2017 Web: www.digitisingearlychildhood.com Email: digitisingearlychildhood@ecu.edu.au