Research documents

#128 2018

128: Embracing Powerlessness in Pursuit of Digital Resilience: Managing Cyber-Literacy in Professional Talk

Dr Simon P Hammond and Professor Neil Cooper (Centre for Research on the Child and Family, University of East Anglia) (May…

Children's behaviour online Positive opportunities online Risks Teens (13-18)
#127 2018

127: Social Media, Social Capital and Adolescents Living in State Care: A Multi-Perspective and Multi-Method Qualitative Study

Dr Simon P Hammond, Professor Neil Cooper and Mr Peter Jordan (Centre for Research on the Child and Family, University…

Children's behaviour online Positive opportunities online Risks Teens (13-18)
#125 2018

125: Safer Internet Day 2018 – Digital Friendships: The Role of Technology in Young People’s Relationships

Maithreyi Rajeshkumar and Chris Heal (UK Safer Internet Centre) (February 2018) A summary of a large scale study examining the…

Children's behaviour online Positive opportunities online Risks Teens (13-18)
#124 2018

124: Offence Processes of Online Sexual Grooming and Abuse of Children Via Internet Communication Platforms

Dr Juliane Kloess (University of Birmingham), Dr Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis (University of Bath), and Professor Anthony R. Beech (University of Birmingham) (July 2017) A summary of…

Grooming Policing Sexual abuse
#123 2018

123: Does Young People’s Tendency to Experience Risks Reach Across the Online/Offline Divide?

Dr Anke Görzig and the EU Kids Online UK Team (LSE) (January 2018)  A summary of the results of a large scale study…

Children's behaviour online Pre-teens (9-12) Risks Teens (13-18)
#122 2017

122: Maximising Opportunities and Minimising Risks for Children Online: The Role of Digital Skills in Emerging Strategies of Parental Mediation

Sonia Livingstone, Kjartan Ólafsson, Ellen Helsper, Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Giuseppe Veltri and Frans Folkvord (Nov 2017) A summary of the results…

Digital literacy Parental attitudes Parental mediation
#121 2017

121: ‘Sharenting’, Parent Blogging, and the Boundaries of the Digital Self

Professor Sonia Livingstone and Dr Alicia Blum Ross (Nov 2017) A summary of research examining how parent bloggers represent themselves…

Digital literacy Parental attitudes
#120 2017

120: Digital Monitoring Behaviours from a Social Learning Perspective

Joris Van Ouytsel, Koen Ponnet and Michel Walrave (Nov 2017) A summary of the results of a study investigating the…

Children's behaviour online Teens (13-18)
#119 2017

119: Adolescents’ Perceptions of the Applications Used, Motives For, and Consequences of Sexting

Joris Van Ouytsel, Ellen Van Gool, Michel Walrave, Koen Ponnet and Emilie Peeters (Nov 2017) A summary of the results of a study examining high school students’ perceptions of…

Children's behaviour online Sexting Teens (13-18)
#118 2017

118: Cyberbullying Among Young People

Directorate-General for Internal Policies, European Parliament (Nov 2017) A summary of a report examining the extent, scope and forms of cyberbullying in…

Children's behaviour online Cyberbullying & harassment Digital literacy
#117 2017

117: House of Lords: Growing Up with the Internet

House of Lords (Nov 2017) A summary of the key findings and recommendations of the inquiry by the House of…

Children's behaviour online Digital literacy Internet access and use Parental mediation