EU Kids Online - New Project Looking at Children's Experiences, Risks and Opportunities Online
Cultural, Contextual and Risk Issues in Children's Safe Use of the Internet and New Media (2006-2009) EU Kids Online, a project funded by the EC Safer Internet plus Programme, began work at the end of June. This thematic network, consisting of key researchers from 18 countries, will examine ongoing and new research being carried out across different member states into how children and young people are using the internet and other online technologies.
This three-year collaboration aims to identify comparable research findings across Europe to evaluate the social, cultural and regulatory influences affecting both risks and children's and parents' responses to them. It will chart available data, highlight research gaps and identify factors that shape the research capability of European research institutions. Finally, it will examine methodological issues relating to cross-cultural analysis in relation to the study of children's online experiences in order to develop a best practice guide for future research.
To be sure of identifying all relevant research findings especially for ongoing and new research, the project members warmly invite communications from the wider community of policy-makers, practitioners and researchers in order to achieve this goal.
Please feel free to forward this message to others who may be interested. Anyone who wishes to be kept informed about the project can register on our website www.eukidsonline.net or email Panayiota Tsatsou at P.Tsatsou@lse.ac.uk. And do tell us about any research, surveys or events in this area. Thank you!
Professor Sonia Livingstone and Dr Leslie Haddon Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK fax: +44 (0) 20 7955 7248 email: s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk / leshaddon@aol.com
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