Tag: children

Sir Jimmy Savile’s Crimes

By Robert Dingwall | Published: November 20, 2012

The English in full moral panic are never an edifying spectacle. The Jimmy Savile affair is no exception, as self-appointed experts on child abuse, BBC-bashing tabloids and ambulance-chasing lawyers have piled into the fray.

Sonia Livingstone on Children and the Internet

By Social Science Bites | Published: July 2, 2012

How are children using the Internet? How is it affecting them? Sonia Livingstone, who has overseen a major study of children’s behaviour online discusses these issues with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast.

My Social Science Career: Interview with Steve Duck

By ssseditor | Published: April 13, 2012

As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, Steve Duck, Professor of Communication Studies and Daniel and Amy Starch Research Chair, University of Iowa, spoke to socialsciencespace.

Raising our children in an electronic media world

By Dorothy Singer | Published: September 6, 2011

By Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer, Yale University One of the greatest developments of the nineteenth century in industrial Europe, Canada and the United States was the recognition that children were no longer to be forced into slave-like labor from their earliest years. The health of society depended on treating children as a [...]

Ethics of research with young children

By Cathy Nutbrown | Published: December 1, 2010

When we involve young children in our research, there are the usual things we well know that we must attend to – issues of access, informed consent, anonymity, confidentiality, protection, safety and well being. Discussions of these themes are well served in the literature (Danby and Farrell 2004; Cocks 2006; Dockett and Perry 2007; Heath [...]

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