Researching Everyday Childhoods: Time. Technology and Documentation in a Digital Age

How can we know about children's everyday lives in a digitally saturated world? What is it like to grow up in and through new media? What happens between the ages of 7 and 15 and does it make sense to think of maturation as mediated? These questions are explored in this innovative book which synthesizes empirical documentation of children's everyday lives with discussions of key theoretical and methodological concepts to provide a unique guide to researching childhood and youth. Researching Everyday Childhoods begins by asking what recent 'post-empirical' and 'post-digital' frameworks can offer researchers of children and young people's lives particularly in researching and theorising how the digital remakes childhood and youth. The key ideas of time technology and documentation are then introduced and are woven throughout the book's chapters. Research-led the book is informed by two state of the art empirical studies ? 'Face 2 Face' and 'Curating Childhoods' ? and links to a dynamic multimedia archive generated by the studies.

Hardcover: 240 pages

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (January 25 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1350011746

ISBN-13: 978-1350011748

Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds