Conditions Contributing to Positive and Negative Outcomes of Children's ICT Use: Protocol for a Scoping Review
- Author(s)
- Idunn Seland, Halla B. Holmarsdottir, Christer Hyggen, Olaf Kapella, Dimitris Parsanoglou, Merike Sisask
- Abstract
Children and young people are often labelled the “digital generation”, naturally equipped with the skills to reap the benefits of digitised education, working life and communication through social media now and in the future. However, this age group’s use of information and communication technology (ICT) is not uniform, nor are the outcomes of their adaption to ICT. Shaped by their social environment and socioeconomic conditions, the potential benefits of children’s and young people’s ICT use may vary greatly, contributing to increased inequalities that exacerbate vulnerability for some while promoting health and well-being for others. This paper presents a protocol for conceptualising, systematically identifying and synthesising the literature on which conditions contribute to children and young people being negatively or positively impacted by their use of ICT. Here, children and young people are seen as social actors in four domains of their everyday lives illustrated through the digital ecosystem: family, leisure, education and civic participation. This protocol’s overview of the actors’ navigation within and across the different domains and potential for studying the interactions between the different spheres of the ecosystem may advance the understanding of both the risks and benefits facing children and young people in their digital lives.
- Organisation(s)
- Project: Family Studies in Austria
- External organisation(s)
- Oslo Metropolitan University, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Tallinn University (TU)
- Journal
- Societies
- Volume
- 12
- ISSN
- 2075-4698
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12050125
- Publication date
- 10-2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 504011 Genealogy
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/conditions-contributing-to-positive-and-negative-outcomes-of-childrens-ict-use-protocol-for-a-scoping-review(d1abfa77-e03e-4ff2-8f87-5b68851947c9).html