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Interactive media technologies challenges and risks among youth in Sweden. : 11 children’s and 11 parents’ thoughts and experiences about Internet and video games

Interactive media technologies like the Internet and video games have opened new avenues of opportunity for many, yet at the same time they represent new challenges and risks, especially for young people. In our study, eleven families were interviewed. Their perceptions, experiences and risk management are described in this paper. The children we interviewed were not high media consumers. The vast majority appeared to have a positive attitude towards the Internet, and had learned to handle common interactive media challenges and risk. Nonetheless some online behaviors which we consider risky were indeed commonly practiced. The most commonly encountered risk experienced by children in our study was exposure to undesirable content. Yet, in a group of eleven children two had been victim of cyberbullying and one had been harassed by some classmate or family member. The most recurrent negative comments parents made about the internet or video games and children were about the danger of being contacted by strangers, as well as the excessive use of the interactive media technologies.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-28837
Date January 2009
CreatorsOrtiz de Gortari, Angelica, Eltayeb, Rawia
PublisherStockholms universitet, Institutionen för barn- och ungdomsvetenskap, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för barn- och ungdomsvetenskap
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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