Reinvention of Childhood in a Networked World

Lloyd, M.

This paper will consider the reinvention of childhood wrought by children's association with new information and communications technologies, and the contemporary commentaries on this social process. It will note generational differences in approach to these technologies but focus mainly on the new stories, images and allegories being told of childhood. It will address the contemporary media reinvention of childhood through the analysis of two contemporary examples-one utopian, the other apocalyptic. Fact is fictionalised as mythic and connotative agents are used to control what and how the association of children and new information and communications technologies is seen.

Cite as: Lloyd, M. (2002). Reinvention of Childhood in a Networked World. In Proc. WCCE2001 Australian Topics: Selected Papers from the Seventh World Conference on Computers in Education, Copenhagen, Denmark. CRPIT, 8. McDougall, A., Murnane, J. and Chambers, D., Eds. ACS. 71-74.

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