This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Sussex, UK. How can we know about children’s everyday lives in a digitally saturated world? What is it like to grow up in and through new media? What happens between the ages of 7 and 15 and does it make sense to think of maturation as mediated? These questions are explored in this innovative book, which synthesizes empirical documentation of children’s everyday lives with discussions of key theoretical and methodological concepts to provide a unique guide to researching childhood and youth. Researching Everyday Childhoods begins by asking what recent ‘post-empirical’ and ‘post-digital’ frameworks can offer researchers of children and young people’s lives, particularly in researching and theorising how the digital remakes childhood and youth. The key ideas of time, technology and documentation are then introduced and are woven throughout the book’s chapters. Research-led, the book is informed by two state of the art empirical studies – ‘Face 2 Face’ and ‘Curating Childhoods’ – and links to a dynamic multimedia archive generated by the studies.
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Foreword, David Buckingham Acknowledgments 1. Everyday Childhoods: Time, Technology and Documentation, Rachel Thomson, Liam Berriman and Sara Bragg 2. Recipes for Documenting Everyday Lives and Times, Rachel Thomson with Susi Arnott, Lucy Hadfield, Mary Jane Kehily and Sue Sharpe 3. Protection, Participation and Ethical Labour, Rachel Thomson with Ester McGeeney 4. Spectacles of Intimacy: The Moral Landscape of Teenage Social Media, Liam Berriman and Rachel Thomson 5. Materialising Time: Toys, Memory and Nostalgia, Liam Berriman 6. The Work of Gender for Children: Now You See It Now You Don’t, Rachel Thomson, Sara Bragg and Mary Jane Kehily 7. Tracing the Affects of Contemporary Schooling, Sara Bragg 8. Recipes for Co-Production with Children and Young People, Liam Berriman and Kate Howland with Fiona Courage 9. A Fellow Traveller: The Opening of an Archive for Secondary Analysis, Jette Kofoed 10. Researching as a Popular and professional Practice, Rachel Thomson Appendix 1: The Story of the Study, Rachel Thomson Appendix 2: The Cast, Liam Berriman Glossary References Index
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From its opening pages, the leading authors guide us through a nuanced engagement with key theoretical ideas about contemporary technological change and the lives of young people subtly synthesised with rich and detailed empirical case studies. This book, set apart from the rest, is tender and responsive to both the participants and the data. It is insightful in quite profound ways. This is a book from which to learn and to change one's practice as a researcher and a social thinker.
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A post-empirical account of researching children's everyday lives in a digital age.
Introduces the idea of the 'post-empirical' as a framework for thinking about social research within a digital landscape including the way the digital remakes childhood and youth

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ISBN
9781350011748
Publisert
2018-01-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
513 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Biographical note

Rachel Thomson is Professor of Childhood and Youth Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Liam Berriman is Lecturer in Digital Humanities/Social Science at the University of Sussex, UK. Sara Bragg is a Senior Research Fellow in the Education Research Centre, University of Brighton, UK.