Children and Young Peoples Digital Lifeworlds: Domestication, Mediation, and Ag [Hardcover]

This book explores the ways in which adolescents in Nigeria domesticate technology and the role of digital gatekeepers such as parents, guardians, and teachers in their digital lifeworlds. Using a child-centred framework, what emerges is a rounded and textured analysis of how technology fits into pivotal aspects of the lives of teenagers. Here, teens are understood as actors rather than just users of media and technology. The digital lifeworlds of young people in advanced economies of the Minority World are well researched. In contrast, research focusing on pre-teens and teenagers digital practices and participation in Majority World such as Africa, is still fundamentally narrow. The book is relevant to fields like sociology, media studies, youth studies, mobile media studies, African studies, and global media studies.

1. Researching children and young peoples digital lifeworlds.- 2. Context matters.- 3. Tracking research on children and the media.- 4. Navigating theoretical, methodological, and ethical interdependences in researching children.- 5. Childrens access and connection to digital technology.- 6. Domestication of technology in everyday life.- 7. Media proclivities, preferences, and perceptions of digital technology.- 8. You cannot serve two masters at a time.- 9. Precarious agency and the power of children with digital technology.- 10. A bricolage: Of summary, final thoughts, and recommendations.

Chikezie E. Uzuegbunams book, Children and Young Peoples Digital Lifeworlds: Domestication, Mediation, and Agency, is a landmark contribution to the study of children, young people, and digital media. ... Uzuegbunams book is a must-read: all those who want to understand childrens relationship with mobile and other digital technologies, particularly beyond the Western lens and the moral panic paradigm, should read this monograph. (Armando Nhantumbo, Mobile Ml3¢