Datafied Childhoods

Giovanna Mascheroni (PhD, Università Cattolica) is Associate Professor of Sociology of Media in the Department of Communication at Università Cattolica.Andra Siibak (PhD, University of Tartu) is Professor of Media Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu.

• List of Tables – Acknowledgments – Introduction – The Datafication of Everything – Datafication as a Practice of the Self – Mediatized Parenting as Datafied Parenting – Mediatized Homes as Datafied Homes – The Mediatized Peer Network – The Mediatized School and the Datafication of Education – Datafied Childhoods, Datafied Futures? – Index.

“Just as children experience all kinds of family and social backgrounds, their engagements with digital devices and data are diverse. In adopting a non-media-centric approach, this book does a wonderful job of revealing the diversity of datafied childhoods in all their nuances and complexities. Importantly, the authors acknowledge children’s agency and the more-than-digital dimensions of their lives.” —Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sidney; Leader of the Vitalities Lab