Children's and Young People's Rights in the Digital Age
Children’s and Young People's Rights in the Digital Age:
An IAMCR 2016 pre-conference
Register for the pre-conference here. (A modest pre-conference fee is to cover basic catering costs.)
Conference description: Are children’s rights being newly infringed or enhanced in the digital age? Such questions concern researchers, child rights’ advocates, and internet governance experts. Yet children’s needs and experiences in the digital age are often neglected in high-level debates about global internet provision and governance and children’s rights are treated as a minority interest and seen as demanding exceptional treatment from adult society. Further, current debates frequently emphasise the risks children potentially face online and underline their right to protection, but much less attention is gven to children’s provision and participation rights online.
The conference will foster an international debate on key issues related to children’s and young people’s rights in the digital age, including: child and youth participation rights; online opportunities and risks; inequalities and digital exclusion; policy and multi-stakeholder governance; the role of peers and peer culture; participatory research; e-learning, health promotion and creativity in the digital environment; cross-generational dynamics of online engagement.
The conference includes a plenary presentation from Global Kids Online. It will begin at midday on 26 July and close at midday on 27 July to enable delegates to make the journey to Leicester for the opening of IAMCR 2016 (approximately one-hour train journey). For more details, visit the conference website.
Download the original call for proposals (PDF)
Location: Shaw Library, Old Building, London School of Economics and Political Science
Date and time: 26-27 July, 2016
Convenors: Sonia Livingstone, Amanda Third and Mariya Stoilova
Contacts: Ssu-Han Yu - S.YU9 [at] lse.ac.uk and Mariya Stoilova - M.Stoilova [at] lse.ac.uk