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Surveillance Futures: Social and Ethical Implications of New Technologies for Children and Young People book cover

1st Edition

Surveillance Futures Social and Ethical Implications of New Technologies for Children and Young People

By Emmeline Taylor, Tonya Rooney Copyright 2017
216 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge
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From birth to adulthood, children now find themselves navigating a network of surveillance devices that attempt to identify, quantify, sort and track their thoughts, movements and actions. This book is the first collection to focus exclusively on technological surveillance and young people.　Organised around three key spheres of children’s day-to-day life: schooling, the self and social lives,... Read more

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1. Digital Playgrounds: Growing up in the Surveillance Age

Emmeline Taylor and Tonya Rooney

Part I

Schooling and Education

2. ‘If I Wanted to Be on Big Brother, I Would’ve Auditioned for It’: Examining the Media Representation of CCTV in Schools and the Impact of Visual Surveillance on Schoolchildren

Emmeline Taylor

3. Digital Health Goes to School: The Implications of Digitising Children’s Bodies

Deborah Lupton and Michael Gard

4. Calculating Children in the Dataveillance School: Personal and Learning Analytics

Ben Williamson

5. Teaching Us to Be ‘Smart’? The Use of RFID in Schools and the Habituation of Young People to Everyday Surveillance

Emmeline Taylor

Part II

Self, Body and Movement

6. Sexting and Young People: Surveillance and Childhood Sexuality

Murray Lee and Thomas Crofts

7. Media Discourses of Girls at Risk and the Domestication of Mobile Phone Surveillance

Jacqueline Vickery

8. ‘Where Are You, Who Are You With, What Are You Doing?’ Strategies of Negotiation and Resistance to Parental Surveillance via Mobile Phones

Carol Barron

9. The Ethical Concerns of Using GPS to Track Children

Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist

10. Childhood, Surveillance and mHealth Technologies

Emma Rich

Part III

Social Lives and Virtual Worlds

11. Spy Kids Too: Encounters with Surveillance through Games and Play

Tonya Rooney

12. World of Spycraft: Video Games, Gamification and Surveillance Creep

Andrew Hope

13. Terra Cognita: Surveillance of Young People’s Favourite Websites

Valerie Steeves

14. The Rise of Pre-emptive Surveillance: Unintended Social and Ethical Consequences

Rosamunde Van Brakel

Biography

Emmeline Taylor is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University and has been researching the rise of surveillance in educational institutions for over a decade. Emmeline’s research has been featured both on TV and Radio.

Tonya Rooney is a Lecturer at the Australian Catholic University and has published widely on children and surveillance technologies, engaging in particular with themes of trust, risk and vulnerability.

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