Parenting for a digital future: the hopes and fears that shape children's lives
Release Date: 08/07/2020
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Parenting for a digital future: the hopes and fears that shape children's lives
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Professor Sonia Livingstone from the London School of Economics discusses the research behind her book Parenting for a digital future: how hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives
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info_outlineSonia Livingstone from the London School of Economics discusses the research behind her new book, Parenting for a digital future: how hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives.
She explains how she and co-researcher Alicia Blum-Ross gained access to the homes and lives of parents keen to share their hopes, fears and experiences of parenting in the digital age and offers new important insights for policymakers, educators, and researchers keen to understand how parents and families can be best supported around the use of new technologies in a digital world.