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Wilson S (2016) Digital technologies, children and young people's relationships and self-care. Children's Geographies, 14 (3), pp. 282-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2015.1040726
Abstract
Children and young people’s access to and use of digital technologies have received increasing attention in recent years. While influential UK media commentators have often focused on associated risks, researchers have taken a less exclusively problem-focused approach. Children and young people’s use of, for example, social media and computer games to extend the spaces available to them in which to maintain relationships, to experiment with social identities, and to engage in an ‘economy of dignity’, however fragile, have all been highlighted. This paper builds on this work to further consider the role of such resources, accessed primarily through computers and mobile phones, as means of caring for oneself or ‘self-care’. It draws on a qualitative study which employed visual and audial methods to explore the sense of belonging (or not) of young people who have been ‘looked after’ by others than their biological parents, often in less affluent circumstances.
Keywords
children and young people; self-care; relationships; looked after children; digital technologies; internet
Journal
Children's Geographies: Volume 14, Issue 3
Status | Published |
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Funders | Economic and Social Research Council |
Publication date | 31/12/2016 |
Publication date online | 12/05/2015 |
Date accepted by journal | 02/04/2015 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/22122 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
ISSN | 1473-3285 |
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