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Digital Childhoods Across Contexts and Countries

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There has been growing interest in how communities engage with and take up digital technologies. For instance, in Australia, approximately 90% of children aged 5–14 years access the Internet (ABS 2013) with 46% of children using mobile devices such as tablets and phones. Across the North American continent and in the EU, there is a similar engagement with digital technologies (Donohue 2015; EU Kids Online 2014). With fast broadband becoming more readily available in many countries, even greater online uptake is expected in the coming years (Livingstone et al. 2011).

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    Susan J. Danby

  2. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Peninsula PO Box 527, Frankston, VIC, 3199, Australia

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  3. Faculty of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Marilyn Fleer

  4. School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

    Christina Davidson

  5. Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Maria Hatzigianni

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Danby, S.J., Fleer, M., Davidson, C., Hatzigianni, M. (2018). Digital Childhoods Across Contexts and Countries. In: Danby, S., Fleer, M., Davidson, C., Hatzigianni, M. (eds) Digital Childhoods. International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development, vol 22. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6484-5_1

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