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Young People and Online Risk

Young People and Online Risk
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Author(s): Elza Dunkels (Umeå University, Sweden), Gun-Marie Frånberg (Umeå University, Sweden)and Camilla Hällgren (Umeå University, Sweden)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 16
Source title: Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Elza Dunkels (Umeå University, Sweden), Gun-Marie Franberg (Umea University, Sweden)and Camilla Hallgren (Umea University, Sweden)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-209-3.ch001

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Abstract

The authors suspect that the young perspective has been left out when online risk and safety are discussed in contemporary research. The aim of this chapter is to give a critical approach to this matter and question fear as a driving force for protecting young people online. Interviews with children about their views of internet use (Dunkels, 2007) and a study of safe use guides from European countries conducted in 2008 (Lüders et al, 2009) form the empirical base. The discussion in the chapter is underpinned by ideas of childhood as a social construction, emerging ideas of power relations pertaining to age and theories of technology reception. The authors also introduce a metaphor, the layer cake, to better understand how the same action can be viewed from different vantage points.

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