MEVIT4613 - Spring 2017

Detailed Lecture Plan

Lectures: Mondays 14:15-16:00

Seminars: Wednesdays, 10:15-12:00

Lecture 1, February 13th  2017

Introducing the scope of the debate: Young people and digital media, between opportunities, risk and harm

Assigned readings:

Seminar 1, February 15th 2017

  • Introduction (pp. 1 -28), Chapter 1 (Identity pp. 29-53), Chapter 3 (Addiction pp. 77-99), Chapter 4 (Danger pp. 100-127) and Chapter 5 (Bullying pp. 128-152) in: boyd, d. (2013). It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Retrieved from: http://www.danah.org/books/ItsComplicated.pdf (the book is available for free online under Creative Commons license and there is no need to order it in the book store).
  • Lenhart, A. (2015, April 9). Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015. Smartphones facilitate shifts in communication landscape for teens (pp. 1-41). Retrieved from: http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2015/04/PI_TeensandTech_Update2015_0409151.pdf

February 20th is the week of winter holiday, no classes this week

Lecture 2, February 27th 2017

Talking about specific risks in the context of online opportunities: from bullying and sexting to pornography and “stranger-danger”

  • EU Kids Online (2014) EU Kids Online: findings, methods, recommendations. EU Kids Online, LSE, London, UK. pp. 1-40. Retrieved from: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/60512/
  • Kowalski, R. M., Giumetti, G. W., Schroeder, A. N., & Lattanner, M. R. (2014). Bullying in the digital age: a critical review and meta-analysis of cyberbullying research among youth. Psychological Bulletin, 140(4), 1073–1137.
  • Livingstone, S. (2016). Reframing media effects in terms of children’s rights in the digital age. Journal of Children and Media, 10(1), 4-12. doi:10.1080/17482798.2015.1123164
  • Chapter 11 (Bullying, pp. 141-151); Chapter 12 (‘Sexting,’ the Exchange of Sexual Messages Online among European Youth, pp. 151-156); Chapter 13 (Pornography, pp. 165-177); Chapter 14 (Meeting New Contacts Online, pp. 177-191), in: Livingstone, S., Haddon, L., & Gorzig, A. (2012). Children, Risk and Safety on the Internet: Research and Policy Challenges in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Polity. 
  • Chapter 4 (Constructing Identity Online: Identity Exploration and Self-Presentation, pp. 59-76); Chapter 5 (Intimacy and the Internet: Relationships with Friends, Romantic Partners, and Family Members, pp. 81-99) in: Subrahmanyam, K. & Smahel, D. (2011). Digital Youth: The Role of Media in Development. New York: Springer.

Additional, optional readings

  • Harper, G. W., Bruce, D., Serrano, P., & Jamil, O. B. (2009). The role of the Internet in the sexual identity development of gay and bisexual male adolescents. In P. L. Hammack & B. J. Cohler (Eds.), The story of sexual identity: Narrative perspectives on the gay and lesbian life course (pp. 297-346). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Seminar 2 March 1st 2017

More risks? Gaming and addiction debate. Discussing risks and harm in context: youth awareness of problematic situations and the meaning of such situations for youth.

  • Smahel, D. & Wright, M. (2014) The meaning of online problematic situations for children: Results of cross-cultural qualitative investigation in nine European countries. (Awareness of Bullying and Harassment; Sexual content and communication; Meeting strangers on and offline; Privacy and personal data misuse; Other problematic situations; Age and gender perspectives pp. 44-73) Retrieved from:
  • http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/56972/
  • Chapter 5 (We Play: The Allure of Social Games, Synthetic Worlds and Second Lives, pp. 103-133) and Chapter 6 (Hooked: Rethinking the Internet Addiction Debate, pp. 133-155) in: Watkins, C. S. (2009). The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future. Boston: Beacon Press.

Additional, optional readings

Lecture 3, March 6th 2017

Regulation, policy response, moral panics: The scope of the media and public debate about youth and technology

Guest lecture by Prof. Elisabeth Staksrud

Please prepare three questions for Prof. Elisabeth Staksrud and post to Fronter one day before the class.

  • Elisabeth Staksrud and Jørgen Kirksæther “He who buries the little girl wins! Moral Panics as Double Jeopardy! The Case of Rule of Rose.” (pp. 145- 160) in: Critcher, C., Hughes, J., Petley, J., and Rohloff, A. (Eds.) Moral Panics in the Contemporary World. New York: Bloomsbury.
  • Chapter 6 (Regulation as Legitimate Protection pp. 87-109) and Chapter 7 (From Authority to Advisory pp. 110-125) in: Staksrud, E. (2013). Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights. Surrey: Ashgate.
  • Marwick, A. E. (2008). To catch a predator? The MySpace moral panic. First Monday, 13(6). Retrieved from: http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2152/1966

Additional, optional readings

  • Introduction (pp. 11-19) and Chapter 5: Livingstone, S. (2013). Knowledge Enhancement: The Risks and Opportunities of Evidence- Based Policy (pp. 93-111) in: O’Neill, B., Staksrud, E., & McLaughlin, S. (2013). Towards a Better Internet for Children? Policy Pillars, Players, and Paradoxes. Goteborg: Nordicom.

Seminar 3, March 8th, 2017

How do we think about and assess the effects of internet use? Evidence of physical and psychological implications.

  • Chapter 7 (Internet Use and Well Being: Physical and Psychological Effects, pp. 123-138) and Chapter 10 (The Darker Sides of the Internet: Violence, Cyberbullying and Victimization, pp. 179-196) in: Subrahmanyam, K. & Smahel, D. (2011). Digital Youth: The Role of Media in Development. New York: Springer.
  • Sherry Turkle. (2015, 09, 26). Stop Googling, Let’s Talk. The New York Times. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html?_r=0
  • Smahel, D. & Wright, M. (2014) The meaning of online problematic situations for children: Results of cross-cultural qualitative investigation in nine European countries. (“Coping” pp. 95-122), Retrieved from:
  • http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/56972/

Lecture 4, March 13th 2017

Digital Media Use in the Context of Children’s Rights; Parental mediation strategies, digital citizenship: what works?

  • Vandoninck, S., d'Haenens, L., & Roe, K. (2013). Online Risks. Journal of Children and Media, 7(1), 60-78. doi:10.1080/17482798.2012.739780. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/65358/1/EU_Kids_Online_Internet%20safety%20helplines.pdf
  • Chapter 18 (The effectiveness of Parental Mediation, pp. 231-245), Chapter 19 (Effectiveness of Teachers’ and Peers’ Mediation in Supporting Opportunities and Reducing Risks Online, pp. 245-256) and Chapter 20 (Understanding Digital Inequality: The Interplay between Parental Socialization and Children’s Development, pp. 257 -273) in: Livingstone, S., Haddon, L., & Gorzig, A., (Eds). Children, Risk and Safety on the Internet: Research and Policy Challenges in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Polity.
  • Crawford, K., & Gillespie, T. (2016). What is a flag for? Social media reporting tools and the vocabulary of complaint. New Media & Society, 18(3), 410–428. doi:10.1177/1461444814543163
  • Dinh, T., Farrugia, L, O’Neill, B. Vandoninck, S. Velicu, A. (2016). Internet safety helplines: Exploratory Study First Findings. Retrieved from: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/65358/1/EU_Kids_Online_Internet%20safety%20helplines.pdf
  • Livingstone, S. (2015). The Parent App is Every Anxious Parent’s Dream. Retrieved from: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/03/17/the-parent-app-is-the-anxious-parents-dream/
  • Ohler, J. (2012). Digital Citizenship Means Character Education for Digital Age. Kappa Delta Pi Record, 48(1), 25-27.

Additional, optional readings

  • Chapter 4 (Families, pp. 149-192). In: Ito, M. (2010). Hanging out, Messing around and Geeking out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. Cambridge, Ma: MIT Press.
  • Livingstone, S., Mascheroni, G., Dreier, M., Chaudron, S. & Lagae, K. (2015) How parents of young children manage digital devices at home: the role of income, education and parental style. London: EU Kids Online, LSE. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/63378/  (pp. 7-21)
  • Chapter 8 (Balancing Online Opportunities and Risks, pp. 208-232). In: Livingstone, S. (2009). Children and the Internet. Cambridge: Polity.

Seminar 4, March 15th 2017

Media literacy and digital citizenship continued. How do we define digital citizenship and e-safety and what is media literacy in digital context?

  • Chapter 1 (The Emerging Civic Landscape, pp. 17-48) in: Mihailidis, P. (2014). Media Literacy and the Emerging Citizen: Youth, Engagement and Participation in Digital Culture. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Collier, A. (20, 10, 2014). Of Young People’s (not just digital) Citizenship. Retrieved from: http://www.netfamilynews.org/young-peoples-just-digital-citizenship
  • Chapter 1 (Morality, Ethics and Digital Life. pp. 1-22) in: James, C. (2014). Disconnected: Youth, New Media and the Ethics Gap. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lecture 5, March 20th 2017

Privacy: The Context of Rights, E-safety and Commercial Data Collection

  • Chapter 2 (Privacy, pp. 54-77) in: boyd, d. (2013). It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Retrieved from: http://www.danah.org/books/ItsComplicated.pdf
  • Section 3 (Intimacy, pp. 117-147) in: Ito, M. (2010). Hanging out, Messing around and Geeking out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. Cambridge, Ma: MIT Press.
  • Lapenta, G. H., & Jørgensen, R. F. (2015). Youth, privacy and online media: Framing the right to privacy in public policy-making. First Monday, 20(3).

Seminar 5, March 22nd, 2017

Focusing on material culture and commercial data collection

  • Chapter 1 (Exploited or Empowered?) and Chapter 2 (Understanding Consumption), pp. 1-25 (for both chapters) in: Buckingham, D. (2011). The Material Child: Growing up in Consumer Culture. Cambridge: Polity.
  • Chapter 11 (Citizen or Consumer, pp. 151-166). In: Staksrud, E. (2013). Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights. Surrey: Ashgate.
  • Montgomery, K.C. (2015). Youth and Surveillance in the Facebook Era: Policy Interventions and Social Implications. Telecommunications Policy. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2014.12.006

Additional, optional readings

  • Chapter 4 (Web of Deception, pp. 67-107) in: Montgomery, K. C. (2007). Generation Digital. Cambridge MIT Press.
  • Chapter 13, Part V (Branded Selves: How Children Relate to Marketing on a Social Network Site, pp. 211-226 by Håvard Skaar) in: Childhood and Consumer Culture. Buckingham, D., & Tingstad, V. (2010). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lecture 6, March 27, 2017

The Studies of Youth and Media: Focusing on two topics: Methodology and Young Children

  • Chaudron S., Beutel M.E, Černikova M., Donoso Navarette V., Dreier M., Fletcher-Watson B., Heikkilä A-S., Kontríková V., Korkeamäki R-L., Livingstone S., Marsh J., Mascheroni G., Micheli M., Milesi D., Müller K.W. , Myllylä-Nygård T., Niska M., Olkina O., Ottovordemgentschenfelde S., Plowman L., Ribbens W., Richardson J., Schaack C. , Shlyapnikov V., Šmahel D., Soldatova G. and Wölfling K. (2015). Young Children (0-8) and digital technology: A qualitative exploratory study across seven countries. pp. 7-30. Available at http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC93239
  • Barbovschi, M., Green, L. and Vandoninck, S. (2013) Innovative approaches for investigating how young children understand risk in new media: Dealing with methodological and ethical challenges. EU Kids Online Network, London, UK. pp. 4-64. Retrieved from: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/53060/  

Seminar 6, March 29th 2017

Lecture 7, April 3rd 2017

Concluding reflections: Opportunities, risks, harm and moral panics –where do you stand?

  • boyd, D. (2007). Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life. In D. Buckingham (Ed.), MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning – Youth, Identity, and Digital Media Volume (pp. 119–142). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Retrieved from http://www.danah.org/papers/WhyYouthHeart.pdf.
  • Chapter 1 (Media Ecologies, pp. 29-77), in: Ito, M. (2010). Hanging out, Messing around and Geeking out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. Cambridge, Ma: MIT Press.

Seminar 7, April 5th, 2017

  • Chapter 12 (“Child Pornography is Great!” pp. 167-173) and Chapter 13 (Good Luck! pp. 175-176) in: Staksrud, E. (2013). Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights. Surrey: Ashgate.

 

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