Telling stories online

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Project leader: Sonia Livingstone

As Director of the UK Children Go Online and EU Kids Online projects, Sonia Livingstone has been researching how 9-19 years old in the UK and Europe use the internet to create online content concerned with personal expression (telling their stories, sharing their experiences), social relationships (with both friends and, on occasion, strangers) and civic expression (engaging with political or community endeavours). Such expressions raise a series of media literacy challenges regarding young people's access, understanding, evaluation and creation of content. Given the recent prominence of social networking sites, the research has recently focused on teenagers' engagement with such sites as MySpace and Facebook as a case study in youthful creative and expressive literacies.

Sonia Livingstone won the Open Access Week award at London School of Economics & Political Science for the article 'Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression'. It was the most downloaded item added in 2010 in LSE Reseach Online. Between February and September 2010 it was downloaded a total of 2065 times.

Livingstone also, with David Brake, did a report for Mediatized Stories on policy implications of the rapid rise of social networking sites (2009).


Publications

Livingstone, S., & Haddon, L. (Eds) (2009) Kids Online: Opportunities and risks for children. Bristol: The Policy Press

Livingstone, S. (Ed.) (2009) In Children and the Internet: Great Expectations, Challenging Realities. Cambridge: Polity.

Livingstone, S. (2009) Communication and Identity. Chapter 4. In Children and the Internet: Great Expectations, Challenging Realities. Cambridge: Polity.

Livingstone, S. & D. Brake (2009) On the Rapid Rise of Social Networking Sites: New Findings and Policy Implications. Research Review. Children & Society.

Staksrud, E. and S. Livingstone (2009). Children and online risk: Powerless victims or resourceful participants? Information, Communication & Society, 12(3): 364-387.

– Republished (2009), in Italian, in Comunicazioni Sociali, 3(3): 274-298.

Staksrud, E., S. Livingstone, L. Haddon, & K. Ólafsson (2009). What Do We Know About Children's Use of Online Technologies? A Report on Data Availability and Research Gaps in Europe (2nd edition). LSE, London: EU Kids Online (EC Safer Internet plus Programme Deliverable D1.1). http://www.eukidsonline.net/

Livingstone, S. (2009) On the mediation of everything. ICA Presidential address 2008. Journal of Communication, 59(1): 1-18.

Livingstone, S. (2009) Foreword: Coming to terms with ‘mediatization’. In K. Lundby (Ed.), Mediatization: Concept, Changes, Consequences (ix-xi). New York: Peter Lang.

Livingstone, S. (2008) Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression. New Media & Society, 10(3): 459-477.

– Reproduced in Nayar, P.K. (2010) (Ed.), The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology (468-482). Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

– Abridged version translated into Spanish and published as: Livingstone, S. (2009) Las redes sociales online – una oportunidad con riesgos para adolescents. In Grané, M., & Willem, C. (Eds), Web 2.0: Neuvas formas de aprender y de participar (87-106). Barcelona: Laertes.

Livingstone, S. (2008) Engaging with media - A matter of literacy? Communication, Culture & Critique, 1(1): 49-60.

Livingstone, S. (2008) Internet literacy: Young people's negotiation of new online opportunities. In T. McPherson (Ed.), Unexpected outcomes and innovative uses of digital media by youth (101-121). MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning, Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.

Drotner, K. & S. Livingstone (Eds.) (2008) The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture. Sage.

Livingstone, S., and Thumim, N. (2008) What is Fred telling us? A commentary on youtube.com/fred. Teachers' College Record, September 08, 2008.

Livingstone, S. (2007) Evaluating the online risks for children in Europe. Telos (in Spanish), 73: 52-69.

Livingstone, ,S. (2007) The challenge of engaing youth online: Contrasting producers' and teenagers' interpretations of websites. European Journal of Communication, 22(2): 165-184.

Livingstone, S. (2007) Mapping the possibilities for beneficial online resources for children: issues of trust, risk and me. From EU Expert Conference, Leipzig, May 2007.

Livingstone, S. (2007) Youthful experts? A critical appraisal of children's emerging internet literacy, In Mansell, R. (Ed.) Oxford Handbook on ICTs. Oxford: Oxford University Press


Presentations

Livingstone, S. (2010) Goffman's 'Participation Framework' Rethought for the Age of Facebook. Paper presented at International Communication Association (ICA), Singapore, 22-26 June.

Livingstone, S. (2010)  Privacy, data protection and social networking. Presenter and session moderator. COFACE Study Day on Families and New TechnologiesBrussels, May.

Livingstone, S. (2009) Goffman's 'participation framework' rethought for the age of Facebook. Presentation at the Mediatized Stories preconference on 'The presentation of self in everyday digital life', London: University of Westminster, 2 September.

Staksrud, E. & Livingstone, S. (2008). Children and online risk: Powerless victims or resourceful participants? Paper presented at the AoIR, October 2008, Copenhagen.

Livingstone, S. (2008): On the mediation of everything. Presidential address to the 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal, May 2008.

Livingstone, S. (2008): On the media(tiz)ation of everything? Invited lecture in honour of Birgit Hertzberg Kaare and Knut Lundby, University of Oslo, April 2008.

Livingstone, S (2008): Teenagersuse of social networking sites for intimacy and self-expression: Changing conceptions of friends, privacy and risk'. Presented to the Media Communications and Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, January 2008.

Livingstone, S. (2007): Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation. Presentation to Poke 1.0 - A Facebook social research symposium, London, November 2007.

Livingstone, S. (2007): 'Evaluating the online risks for children in Europe'. Keynote lecture to the First International Congress on Television and Childhood, Madrid, October 2007.

Livingstone, S .(2007): 'Audiences engaging with media - a matter of literacy?' Keynote presentation to the conference, Transforming Audiences: Identity/Creativity/Everyday Life. Westminster, September 2007.

Livingstone, S. (2007): The fraught relation between online opportunities and risks: a youth-centred approach'. Presentation to the Symposium on Mediatized Storytelling, Oslo, March, 2007.

Livingstone, S. (2006): Internet literacy? Researching young people's negotiation of new online opportunities'. Keynote presentation to the conference, Informal Learning and Digital Media: Constructions, Contexts and Consequences. Odense, Denmark, September 2006.

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