Publications

Publication details [#58910]

Livingstone, S. 2014. Developing social media literacy: How children learn to interpret risky opportunities on social network sites. Communications 39 (3) : 232–303.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bullying | family role | internet | social network | social relationship

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/COMM/html

Annotation

This paper reveals how children's changing orientation to social networking online (and offline), over the ages 9-11 (what is real or fake), 11-13 (what is fun (whether or not fake or transgressive), and 14-16 (more comlex social-emotional lives, greater maturity) seems affected by their shifting peer and parental relations, and influences their risk perceptions.