Researching Everyday Childhoods

Rachel Thomson is Professor of Childhood and Youth Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Liam Berriman is Lecturer in Digital Humanities/Social Science at the University of Sussex, UK.Sara Bragg is a Senior Research Fellow in the Education Research Centre, University of Brighton, UK.

• Foreword, David BuckinghamAcknowledgments 1. Everyday Childhoods: Time, Technology and Documentation, Rachel Thomson, Liam Berriman and Sara Bragg 2. Recipes for Documenting Everyday Lives and Times, Rachel Thomson with Susi Arnott, Lucy Hadfield, Mary Jane Kehily and Sue Sharpe 3. Protection, Participation and Ethical Labour, Rachel Thomson with Ester McGeeney 4. Spectacles of Intimacy: The Moral Landscape of Teenage Social Media, Liam Berriman and Rachel Thomson 5. Materialising Time: Toys, Memory and Nostalgia, Liam Berriman6. The Work of Gender for Children: Now You See It Now You Don’t, Rachel Thomson, Sara Bragg and Mary Jane Kehily 7. Tracing the Affects of Contemporary Schooling, Sara Bragg 8. Recipes for Co-Production with Children and Young People, Liam Berriman and Kate Howland with Fiona Courage 9. A Fellow Traveller: The Opening of an Archive for Secondary Analysis, Jette Kofoed 10. Researching as a Popular and professional Practice, Rachel ThomsonAppendix 1: The Story of the Study, Rachel Thomson Appendix 2: The Cast, Liam Berriman Glossary ReferencesIndex

From its opening pages, the leading authors guide us through a nuanced engagement with key theoretical ideas about contemporary technological change and the lives of young people subtly synthesised with rich and detailed empirical case studies. This book, set apart from the rest, is tender and responsive to both the participants and the data. It is insightful in quite profound ways. This is a book from which to learn and to change one's practice as a researcher and a social thinker.