Riskbilder och kontroll av ungas IKT-användning: En fallstudie
(2007)Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Abstract
- The use of Internet by children and teenagers has become a special field of interest. Certain risks are associated with young peoples use of this media and national and international measures have been taken to assess and counter these risks.
Library and informationscience have approached the subject of risks by looking at different software´s, so called Internet filters, that is used to control and censor the access to Internet based resources. In the USA, where public services and institutions that provide Internet resources to children and youth have started to require censorship of the Internet, a debate has arisen concerning the use of so called Internet filters.
The theoretical basis of this master´s thesis is related to the... (More) - The use of Internet by children and teenagers has become a special field of interest. Certain risks are associated with young peoples use of this media and national and international measures have been taken to assess and counter these risks.
Library and informationscience have approached the subject of risks by looking at different software´s, so called Internet filters, that is used to control and censor the access to Internet based resources. In the USA, where public services and institutions that provide Internet resources to children and youth have started to require censorship of the Internet, a debate has arisen concerning the use of so called Internet filters.
The theoretical basis of this master´s thesis is related to the conception of risk, gender and childhood. The focus of the paper lies on young peoples use of information and communication technology (ICT) and how risks associated with young peoples use of the Internet is constructed by different parties involved in supplying Internet resources. By means of a case study at a primary school in Skåne and at the company Netscan in Malmö. This study aims to reveal risk constructions and the consequences these risk constructions lead to in the use of ICT by young people.
This paper shows that the risks associated with children's and youth's use of ICT is rooted in the understanding of the group that is at risk, the children. Childhood in the context of western civilisation/ western culture is therefore discussed from a constructionist point of view and the case study shows that children and teenagers are perceived as innocent, ignorant and passive. This point of view includes a crucial point on powerdistribution namely young people´s position in society. The characteristics of constructionism has attributed to the formation of the view that children are subordinate in relation to the prevailing structure.
Besides childhood being an important componant for how risks are constructed, young peoples gender is an important foundation. Gender and age interrelate and amplify each other and therefore an intersectionalistik approach must be applied.
The case study that has been conducted shows that risk constructions provide a mandate for limiting and regulating children's and youth's access to digital information and communication. It is also shown that the construction of scholarly information and knowledge is of vital importance for how the children and teenagers use of ICT is limited through extensive bureaucratic regulation. (Less)
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- author
- Ydrefelt, Lina
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2007
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Internet, Childhood, Gender, Social constructionism, Information, Communication, Documentation, information, library science, archivistics, Arkiv- och bibliotekskunskap, dokumentation
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1322888
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- 2007-06-11 00:00:00
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- 2014-04-11 14:16:43
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abstract = {{The use of Internet by children and teenagers has become a special field of interest. Certain risks are associated with young peoples use of this media and national and international measures have been taken to assess and counter these risks.
Library and informationscience have approached the subject of risks by looking at different software´s, so called Internet filters, that is used to control and censor the access to Internet based resources. In the USA, where public services and institutions that provide Internet resources to children and youth have started to require censorship of the Internet, a debate has arisen concerning the use of so called Internet filters.
The theoretical basis of this master´s thesis is related to the conception of risk, gender and childhood. The focus of the paper lies on young peoples use of information and communication technology (ICT) and how risks associated with young peoples use of the Internet is constructed by different parties involved in supplying Internet resources. By means of a case study at a primary school in Skåne and at the company Netscan in Malmö. This study aims to reveal risk constructions and the consequences these risk constructions lead to in the use of ICT by young people.
This paper shows that the risks associated with children's and youth's use of ICT is rooted in the understanding of the group that is at risk, the children. Childhood in the context of western civilisation/ western culture is therefore discussed from a constructionist point of view and the case study shows that children and teenagers are perceived as innocent, ignorant and passive. This point of view includes a crucial point on powerdistribution namely young people´s position in society. The characteristics of constructionism has attributed to the formation of the view that children are subordinate in relation to the prevailing structure.
Besides childhood being an important componant for how risks are constructed, young peoples gender is an important foundation. Gender and age interrelate and amplify each other and therefore an intersectionalistik approach must be applied.
The case study that has been conducted shows that risk constructions provide a mandate for limiting and regulating children's and youth's access to digital information and communication. It is also shown that the construction of scholarly information and knowledge is of vital importance for how the children and teenagers use of ICT is limited through extensive bureaucratic regulation.}},
author = {{Ydrefelt, Lina}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Riskbilder och kontroll av ungas IKT-användning: En fallstudie}},
year = {{2007}},
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