Kids online: A New Research Agenda for Understanding Social Networking Forums

NEW YORK, New York. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center. November 14, 2012. (English) by Sara Grimes and Deborah Fields. -A growing number of kids at increasingly younger ages are engaging in online social networking today –a development that is leading to a surge of news stories, media attention, and economic investment. In this paper, produced with the generous support of Cisco Systems and the Digital Media and Learning Hub at the University of California, Irvine, scholars Sara Grimes and Deborah Fields argue that these shifts in usage and public discussion demand a better understanding of the ways that social networking sites mediate kids’ socializing and the opportunities and limits they place on kids’ participation, particularly for young children.

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