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In this book’s discussion of young people’s encounters with the digital, we, the authors, speak as and primarily with those who identify or are interpolated as adults; subjects whose sense-making, like that of Mr. Deane, is always already structured by our discursive positioning in linear time as ‘no longer young’. We choose to address adults not because we consider conversations with young people unimportant. To the contrary, we will argue throughout this book that intergenerational dialogue is crucial to navigating the challenges that confront us. Nor, in addressing our audience, is our invocation of the first-person plural (‘we’) intended to gloss the differences that shape diverse groups’ and individuals’ conceptualizations of, access to and use of technology. Rather, the desire is to assert a heterogeneous ‘we’ that nonetheless shares the experience of ‘being adult’—or, at least, of being no longer young—and, generationally speaking, enjoys the privilege of the unmarked case (Livingstone and Third 2017, 661). Acknowledging this, the book draws upon the attitudes, experiences and feelings of a diverse range of young people, who played a central role in the research that is elaborated here. This is deliberate, because adult ways of being have dominated, for too long, how young people and the digital are configured in mainstream debates. We contend that alternative ways of thinking and doing are urgently demanded, and that young people’s insights and experiences are a powerful and necessary resource for such a reorientation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    While we do not have the space to elaborate further here, we would also add that such ‘adult’ framings are principally Western, white, middle-class and heteronormative.

  2. 2.

    We define the digital in more detail in Chap. 2.

  3. 3.

    This focus has begun gradually to be supplanted by alternative formulations. For example, since at least as early as 2014, when the United Nations Committee for the Rights of the Child met in Geneva to debate how to reinterpret the Convention on the Rights of the Child for the digital age, rights-based approaches to children’s and young people’s digital practices have begun to assert themselves in debates about digital practice globally. This debate’s emphasis on approaches that can encompass children’s and young people’s provision, protection and participation rights is beginning to inspire more strengths-based, participatory research, policy and practice, and is receiving significant attention globally. See, for example, Third et al. (2014a); Livingstone and Bulger (2013) and the work of Global Kids Online (see Global Kids Online 2019).

  4. 4.

    Recent years have seen enormous increases in the take-up of online technologies globally. In many instances, however, adoption of digital media is taking place in the context of limited or non-existent policy and legal frameworks, institutional capacities and financial resources for the development of protective strategies, all of which may expose children and young people to genuine and serious dangers. See, for example, Gasser et al. (2010); ITU (2014); Livingstone and Bulger (2013); Livingstone et al. (2015b); Livingstone et al. (2017); Third (2016a); Milosevic (2017).

  5. 5.

    For example, Third’s and Collin’s work with others on the Cultivating Digital Capacities project (Magee et al. 2018) has highlighted the relational dimensions of digital media practices, demonstrating that children, young people and adult family members—parents, grandparents and extended family—often negotiate the digital together, transforming their collective understandings of both the risks and the opportunities presented by the digital age.

  6. 6.

    danah boyd recounts a similar experience of teenagers engaging with computer-mediated culture in the mid-1990s. She writes, ‘I was fascinated with the new communication and information technologies that had emerged since I was in high school. I had spent my own teen years online, and I was among the first generation of teens who did so. But that was a different era; few of my friends in the early 1990s were interested in computers at all’ (2014, 4).

  7. 7.

    For example, Mark Zuckerberg has insisted that a philosophy of democracy and transparency underpinned his founding of Facebook, claiming that ‘I’m trying to make the world a more open place’ (Zuckerberg, cited in Vargas 2010). For a discussion of these claims, see van Dijck (2012).

  8. 8.

    McArthur elaborates: ‘Moreover, the term geek has been used in relationship to some of the players in the political economy of computer-based communication. The pioneers of computer systems and software and the founders of popular Web-based services such as Google and Facebook have carried this appellation to positions of power and wealth in the American economy’ (2009, 61).

  9. 9.

    The rapidity of this shift in uptake of digital media by children and young people globally is by no means cause for blind celebration. As much research shows, children and young people’s digital participation raises many new challenges, not the least of which are incursions on children’s and young people’s privacy rights, the unauthorized collection of digital data from children and young people and children’s and young people’s interpolation as consumers within emerging global political and economic structures (via, for example, the Internet of Toys. See FPF and FOSI 2016; Nelson 2016). These issues require urgent attention from the global research, policy and practice community working in the field of children’s and young people’s digital practices.

  10. 10.

    For example, seniors have recently been identified as a population group that is vulnerable to cybercrimes, as opposed to cybersafety risks: ‘Anyone can be a victim of cybercrime but… Australia’s seniors, as a relatively wealthy and recently growing demographic online, are an attractive target for innovative cybercriminals… Available research also suggests Australian seniors are being disproportionately targeted by, and fall victim to, certain types of online criminal activity dependent on age’ (Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia 2013, 37).

  11. 11.

    Sonia Livingstone and Leslie Haddon have clustered the risks children encounter online into three categories: ‘content risks’, where the child or young person is the largely passive recipient of risky images or text; ‘contact risks’, in which they interact with risky individuals or groups; and ‘conduct risks’, in which the risk ensues from the child or young person’s active behaviours and interactions with others (2009). It should be noted that Livingstone and Haddon’s categories do not map straightforwardly onto the discourses of youth at risk and youth as risk. Sometimes they align and sometimes they operate as cross-currents.

  12. 12.

    In this book, we draw on the work of Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre to theorize the everyday. For an alternative theorization of the everyday, see Smith (1987).

  13. 13.

    For example, some research has shown that young people translate their moral frameworks between online and offline settings (Third et al. 2011). This means that if families are taking regular opportunities to have conversations about the values they stand for, young people are likely to mobilize these values when making decisions online. This same research showed that parents find this idea very comforting because it gives them agency and a degree of influence over the things their children do in spaces that are (often deliberately) distanced from parental intervention. Similarly, young people report that they much prefer their parents to use active mediation strategies to help guide their digital practices. Above all, they say, they just want to be trusted by adults to use digital media wisely and reach out when they need help (Third et al. 2014a, 41–2).

  14. 14.

    Here, we draw on a long history of theorizing about the relationship between technology and shifts in the experience of time and space. Some key texts include McLuhan (1994); Beck (2000); Castells (1996); Harvey (1989); Lash (2002); Green (2002); Virilio (1995, 2000); Urry (2000).

  15. 15.

    Liminality is a condition that Victor Turner describes as ‘ambiguous’ (Victor Turner as cited in McClintock 1995, 24).

  16. 16.

    See footnote 14.

  17. 17.

    The pernicious coalition of data mining and constituted power has reached new heights with recent political events, namely, the election of Donald Trump as president of the USA and the UK’s decision to exit the European Union (Brexit). See Grassegger and Krogerus (2017).

  18. 18.

    We are mindful here of Paul Virilio’s argument that speed underpins domination. See Armitage (2000).

  19. 19.

    Indeed, noting the ‘teleological model of the child across biological, social and cultural domains’, Claudia Castañeda argues that the child—which we understand here as the prototypical young person—has been key to thinking development as a concept of ‘human and embodied transformation’ (2002, 4) broadly. She argues, further, that the child was key to the emergence of the modern discourse of development and the proliferation of racist discourses of progress.

  20. 20.

    As Sara Ahmed has explained, orientations ‘point us toward the future… Orientations are effects of what we tend toward, where the ‘toward’ marks a space and time that is almost, but not quite, available in the present’ (2006, 554).

  21. 21.

    Importantly, this is not to suggest a libertarian approach to young people’s futures. We follow Arendt in arguing that the key task for adults is to ‘decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world’ (Arendt 1961, 196).

  22. 22.

    These memories are both those of individuals—what Stiegler calls ‘secondary retentions’—and collective or cultural memories—or what he terms ‘tertiary memories’; ‘sedimentations that accumulate across generations and are central to the process of creating collective individuation’ (2010, 5).

  23. 23.

    Here, what we refer to as ‘excess’ parallels what Derrida calls ‘differánce’ or the ‘supplement’. See Derrida (1982).

  24. 24.

    Castañeda writes, ‘once the adult’s temporal distance from childhood has been secured, the adult draws on the past as a resource for the present’ (2002, 5).

  25. 25.

    As we discuss in Chap. 5, movements such as 15-M, the Indignants, Take the Square and #spanishrevolution in Spain, and Party X in Canada, have engaged young people in what are described as ‘new, deeper and stronger form[s] of democracy’ (Party X 2015). In the USA, it is claimed that young people associated with the Occupy movement are the ‘new democratic leaders’ and ‘prime mover[s] in perhaps the most promising protest movement to sweep the country in decades’ (Manson 2011). Young North Americans currently dominate the ‘Fight for 15’, a movement of fast food workers campaigning for a minimum wage and the right to form a union, which, like many similar movements, uses social media and a strong online presence to engage members, organize events and revitalize the labour movement (Hackman 2014).

  26. 26.

    All quotations of young people’s contributions in this book have been edited for clarity, with attention to maintaining their integrity.

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