1st Edition
Kids, KidTech, and Digital Capitalism The Fight for Our Digital Futures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Digital Kids, Digital Worlds
Chapter 2: Born to Shop? A History of the Youth Market
Chapter 3: Fun and Free: Theorizing KidTech and the Workings of Digital Capitalism
Chapter 4: Kids as Data: The First Fully Datafied Generation
Chapter 5: What’s the Difference? Play as Work in Digital Playspaces
Chapter 6: Playing in the Moated Walled Garden: KidTech, Roblox, and the Metaverse
Chapter 7: Digital Kids, Digital Citizenships, and Rethinking Our Digital Futures
Index
Biography
Natalie Coulter is a Professor in Communication and Media Studies at York University. Her research focuses on young people's digital cultures, children's media, girls' culture, and digital capitalism. She is the Past Director of the Institute for Digital Literacies (IRDL) and a founding member of Girls' Studies Research Network (GSRN). She is co-author of Media and Communication in Canada (2025) and author of Tweening the Girl (2014). She has published widely on such topics as digital media, social media, consumer culture, gender and youth culture, Canadian media, masculinity and Playboy, research harassment, and the social impacts of digital technologies.
