Abstract
Throughout this chapter, the focus is on the importance of children’s agency in their use of Internet of Toys (IoToys). We think about children’s capabilities as part of digitally mediated eco-communities. Informed by the socio-ecological model, children’s, practitioners’ and parents’ dispositions helped contextualise the factors that shape children’s use of IoToys.
We provide the following key messages throughout the chapter:
1.A discussion of passivity or empowerment as part of children’s digital lives with IoToys, in line with Craft’s (2013) work.
2.A reanalysis of perceptions of childhood in the digital age, linking to the sociological models of childhood and the role of children as competent and agentic.
3.An account of socio-ecological influences on digital lives, likened to Rogoff’s (2008) three planes relating to individual, interpersonal and community alongside a discussion of how the interpersonal plane can be reimagined to include interactions between child and machine.
4.A note of caution against the passive child agenda and recurrent moral panic.
We provide the following key messages throughout the chapter:
1.A discussion of passivity or empowerment as part of children’s digital lives with IoToys, in line with Craft’s (2013) work.
2.A reanalysis of perceptions of childhood in the digital age, linking to the sociological models of childhood and the role of children as competent and agentic.
3.An account of socio-ecological influences on digital lives, likened to Rogoff’s (2008) three planes relating to individual, interpersonal and community alongside a discussion of how the interpersonal plane can be reimagined to include interactions between child and machine.
4.A note of caution against the passive child agenda and recurrent moral panic.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Internet of Toys |
| Subtitle of host publication | Practices, Affordances and the Political Economy of Children's Play |
| Editors | Giovanna Mascheroni, Donell Holloway |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Chapter | 7 |
| Pages | 135-157 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Publication status | Published - 16 Apr 2019 |
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Keywords
- internet of toys
- early childhood
- childhood in a digital age
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Arnott, L., Palaiologou, I., & Gray, C. (2019). An ecological exploration of the Internet of Toys in early childhood everyday life. In G. Mascheroni, & D. Holloway (Eds.), The Internet of Toys: Practices, Affordances and the Political Economy of Children's Play (pp. 135-157). London.