Researching Everyday Childhoods

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Sussex, UK. How can we know about childrens everyday lives in a digitally saturated world? What is it like to grow up in and through new media? What happens between the ages of 7 and 15 and does it make sense to think of maturation as mediated? These questions are explored in this innovative book, which synthesizes empirical documentation of childrens everyday lives with discussions of key theoretical and methodological concepts to provide a unique guide to researching childhood and youth. Researching Everyday Childhoods begins by asking what recent post-empirical and post-digital frameworks can offer researchers of children and young peoples lives, particularly in researching and theorising how the digital remakes childhood and youth. The key ideas of time, technology and documentation are then introduced and are woven throughout the books chapters. Research-led, the book is informed by two state of the art empirical studies Face 2 Face and Curating Childhoods and links to a dynamic multimedia archive generated by the studies.