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Five Varieties of access and use

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Abstract

This chapter analyses the increasing variety of internet access and use experienced by children in Europe. Locations, platforms, experience and the embeddedness of the internet in everyday life are accounted for in order to provide a full picture of the first and the most immediate socio-cultural layer in which children’s agency is exercised. Insofar as individuals’ use of technologies is socially shaped within family and peer relations, this chapter investigates the relationship between place of access, online experience and frequency of use of the internet, within the family’s wider technological culture. It examines cross-national variations in patterns of usage and provides a classification of countries.

Abstract

This chapter analyses the increasing variety of internet access and use experienced by children in Europe. Locations, platforms, experience and the embeddedness of the internet in everyday life are accounted for in order to provide a full picture of the first and the most immediate socio-cultural layer in which children’s agency is exercised. Insofar as individuals’ use of technologies is socially shaped within family and peer relations, this chapter investigates the relationship between place of access, online experience and frequency of use of the internet, within the family’s wider technological culture. It examines cross-national variations in patterns of usage and provides a classification of countries.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. List of tables and figures vii
  4. Acknowledgements xiii
  5. Notes on contributors xv
  6. Theoretical framework for children’s internet use 1
  7. Methodological framework: the EU Kids Online project 15
  8. Cognitive interviewing and responses to EU Kids Online survey questions 33
  9. Which children are fully online? 45
  10. Varieties of access and use 59
  11. Online opportunities 73
  12. Digital skills in the context of media literacy 87
  13. Between public and private: privacy in social networking sites 99
  14. Experimenting with the self online: a risky opportunity 113
  15. Young Europeans’ online environments: a typology of user practices 127
  16. Bullying 141
  17. ‘Sexting’: the exchange of sexual messages online among European youth 151
  18. Pornography 165
  19. Meeting new contacts online 177
  20. Excessive internet use among European children 191
  21. Coping and resilience: children’s responses to online risks 205
  22. Agents of mediation and sources of safety awareness: a comparative overview 219
  23. The effectiveness of parental mediation 231
  24. Effectiveness of teachers’ and peers’ mediation in supporting opportunities and reducing risks online 245
  25. Understanding digital inequality: the interplay between parental socialisation and children’s development 257
  26. Similarities and differences across Europe 273
  27. Mobile access: different users, different risks, different consequences? 285
  28. Explaining vulnerability to risk and harm 297
  29. Relating online practices, negative experiences and coping strategies 309
  30. Towards a general model of determinants of risk and safety 323
  31. Policy implications and recommendations: now what? 339
  32. Appendix: Key variables used in EU Kids Online analyses 355
  33. Index 369
Children, Risk and Safety on the Internet
This chapter is in the book Children, Risk and Safety on the Internet
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781847428844-008

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. List of tables and figures vii
  4. Acknowledgements xiii
  5. Notes on contributors xv
  6. Theoretical framework for children’s internet use 1
  7. Methodological framework: the EU Kids Online project 15
  8. Cognitive interviewing and responses to EU Kids Online survey questions 33
  9. Which children are fully online? 45
  10. Varieties of access and use 59
  11. Online opportunities 73
  12. Digital skills in the context of media literacy 87
  13. Between public and private: privacy in social networking sites 99
  14. Experimenting with the self online: a risky opportunity 113
  15. Young Europeans’ online environments: a typology of user practices 127
  16. Bullying 141
  17. ‘Sexting’: the exchange of sexual messages online among European youth 151
  18. Pornography 165
  19. Meeting new contacts online 177
  20. Excessive internet use among European children 191
  21. Coping and resilience: children’s responses to online risks 205
  22. Agents of mediation and sources of safety awareness: a comparative overview 219
  23. The effectiveness of parental mediation 231
  24. Effectiveness of teachers’ and peers’ mediation in supporting opportunities and reducing risks online 245
  25. Understanding digital inequality: the interplay between parental socialisation and children’s development 257
  26. Similarities and differences across Europe 273
  27. Mobile access: different users, different risks, different consequences? 285
  28. Explaining vulnerability to risk and harm 297
  29. Relating online practices, negative experiences and coping strategies 309
  30. Towards a general model of determinants of risk and safety 323
  31. Policy implications and recommendations: now what? 339
  32. Appendix: Key variables used in EU Kids Online analyses 355
  33. Index 369
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