1st Edition
Screenplay Children and Computing in the Home
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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What are young people really doing on computers at home? Computers feature heavily in the lives of today's young people, and this book sets out to question commonplace assumptions about the use of technology by children at home. Bringing together research from the perspective of psychology, sociology, education and media studies, the authors ask whether we are really witnessing the rise of a new... Read more
Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 The ScreenPlay project; Chapter 2 Setting the scene; Part 2 The domestic context; Chapter 3 Computer histories, computer roles in the home; Chapter 4 The computer in family life; Part 3 Young people's computer use in the home; Chapter 5 The digital landscape; Chapter 6 Writing, designing and making; Part 4 Digital cultures; Chapter 7 Computers, consumption and identity; Chapter 8 Computers, gender and class; Chapter 9 Digital childhood; Part 5 Learning with the computer; Chapter 10 Learning with computers at home; Chapter 11 Learning with computers in school; Part 6 Conclusion; Chapter 12 Conclusion;
Biography
John Furlong is a sociologist at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences.
Rosamund Suthelrand is Professor of Education at the University of Bristol.
Ruth Furlong is at the University of Wales, Newport
Keri Facer is a research officer at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol
