Media Coverage October 2003

Children are internet experts (The Guardian, 16 Oct 2003)
Children are becoming the internet experts in families as their parents leave them to it in what could be "a lasting reversal of the generation gap", according to research published today...

Children 'need to improve web use' (BBC News Online, 16 Oct 2003)
Children should be taught to use the internet "more creatively", rather than spending their time playing games and chatting to friends, a report recommends. Research carried out at the London School of Economics found youngsters were often at the forefront of family computer use...

Children 'should improve web use' (CBBC Newsround, 16 Oct 2003)
Children should be taught to use the internet "more creatively", according to a report. Research by the London School of Economics said although kids had more web skills than parents, they spent too much time chatting and gaming online...

Kids become internet experts (Web User, 16 Oct 2003)
Young web users see themselves as the main internet experts in their home, according to a new report. A new report from the London School of Economics, UK Children Go Online, looks at children's use of the internet...

Parents 'confident' in net safety (BBC News Online, 16 Nov 2003)
... Recent research suggests parents also need to be careful in balancing supervision with respect for their children's privacy. Children value privacy and liken over-monitoring by parents to having their pockets searched, Professor Sonia Livingstone from the London School of Economics has found...

Viktigt att eleverna lär sig skapa eget innehåll på nätet (Kollegiet, Sweden, 17 Nov 2003)
Det är viktigt att eleverna får själva lär sig skapa innehåll på Internet. Det hävdar Sonia Livingstone, professor i socialpsykologi vid London School of Economics and Political Science och en av personerna bakom en av de största undersökningarna någonsin, om barn och Internet...

Widen the net (The Guardian Online, 8 Jan 2004)
... Research by Sonia Livingstone, professor of social psychology at the London School of Economics, shows that growing numbers of children are using instant messaging systems - a kind of text messaging by computer - rather than chatrooms...

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