Session Information
Session 4, The Influence of Educational Changes on Community-School Relationships
Papers
Time:
2005-09-08
11:00-12:30
Room:
Arts A105
Chair:
Rune Kvalsund
Contribution
This paper is based on an ethnographic study carried by the author on children and young people's dairies on a Swedish web community called "Youngsters". Its goal is to provide an insight into what some children write in their diaries on this web community and what are the favorite topics as depicted in these narratives. The focus is on the children's voice and notions about their life: family, friends and schooling. The issues raised in the article also connect with advantages and disadvantages gained by using, internet as an engaging and interactive research arena by and for children. Results indicated that, in spite of all the risks and moral panics related to children's internet usage, it is possible to gain access to children's own accounts of their life and to get an 'inside picture' of their thoughts by studying the self presentations and diaries they create on a web community. The importance of these diaries, I aim to emphasise is in the fact that they are written by children for other children, and not written to fulfil any adult or researches request. According to my findings by writing a digital diary, many children attempt to establish a peer communication which would enable them to investigate the actions and interpretations of other children in the context of their immediate surroundings
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