Digital Children A Guide for Adults.

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Cover -- About the authors -- Copyright -- Reviews -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Quiz -- Chapter 1 What is childhood anyway? -- Defining childhood -- Childhood as a biological phenomenon -- Childhood as a developmental process -- Childhood as a moral state -- Childhood as a consumerist opportunity -- Children in the digital age -- Schooling and childhood -- Chapter 2 How risky is it to be a child? -- What is moral panic? -- Witchcraft -- Video games -- Stranger danger -- Obesity -- Online pornography -- Drugs -- Radicalisation -- Data privacy rights

How can parents navigate the modern world of risk? -- Chapter 3 'There be monsters online' -- Misinformation in online safeguarding -- Digital ghost stories -- a post-truth phenomenon -- The Blue Whale Challenge -- The characteristics of a digital ghost story -- Momo -- Responding to digital ghost stories -- Chapter 4 Teen sexting -- the modern-day phenomenon -- A brief history of teen sexting research -- Tackling sexting in 2021 -- Law fit for the hyperconnected world? -- Outcome 21 -- The legal sticking plaster -- How should we support young people? -- Chapter 5 See everything, always

SafetyTech and the reassurance myth -- SafetyTech -- filtering -- SafetyTech -- monitoring -- SafetyTech -- tracking -- The reality of the reassurance myth -- Chapter 6 Children and biometrics -- Defining biometrics -- The rise of behavioural biometrics -- Digital proctoring -- Behaviour management systems -- The spread of biometric use in schools -- Growing school size -- Power and control -- Looking modern and efficient -- The future of biometrics in schools -- Chapter 7 Beyond the fourth industrial revolution: Artificial intelligence and education -- AI taunting -- Digital privacy rights

Wet versus dry intelligence -- Four alternative futures for artificial intelligence and education -- Alfie -- Bella -- Carter -- Daisy -- Chapter 8 The future -- Covid-19 and lockdowns -- The Online Safety Bill -- Ofsted report into sexual violence in schools -- Is there hope? -- Quiz

Two leading experts on digital childhoods explore the realities of growing up online in the 21st century. They provide an informative and accessible guide to the issues young people face today, based on the latest research and scholarship. They also expose the many ways the child safeguarding industry means well, but often gets things very wrong.