Speaker: Amanda Third (Western Sydney University and Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre)
Chair: Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE)
The opening plenary seeks to unpack the ways digital media intersect – both positively and negatively – with children’s rights today and to reflect on how children’s rights might provide a meaningful counterpoint from which to consider the role of ‘the digital’ in advancing human rights more broadly
Session 1: Children's voice and agency
Gitte Stald – Children as digital rights agents
Klaus Thestrup – SMALL STEPS - how to be a digital world citizen?
Smiljana Simeunovic Frick – Challenge accepted: web-portal for children's participation in the Convention for the Children’s Rights monitoring in Moldova
Session 2: Child protection from online risks
Lelia Green and Donell Holloway – What rights do young people have to explore sexually explicit materials?
Martina Cirbusová – Protecting children from unwanted information
James Marsh – Full restitution for child pornography victims: the Supreme Court’s Paroline decision and the need for a congressional response
Session 3: Rethinking children's rights
Elisabeth Staksrud – Which is more important for people – freedom of expression or protecting children from unwanted media content?
Uwe Hasebrink and Claudia Lampert – Content │ contract │ contact │ conduct: translating a risks and opportunities classification into a children’s rights framework
Gerard Goggin and Meryl Alper – Disability, children, and new challenges to digital policy and human rights
Session 4: Online civic participation
Xin Zeng and Fen Xiang – Chinese young citizens’ emerging media practices and political engagement
Renata Souza, Andrea Medrado and Adilson Cabral – Online activism by Rio’s favela youth: technology appropriation and surveillance
Philippa Collin - ‘No Right of Way’: institutional barriers to enacting children’s rights in a digital age
Session 5: Online privacy challenges
Máire Messenger Davies and Brigit Morris– Children's rights to privacy in an age of digital media: a comparison between press codes from around the world
Milda Macenaite – Children’s right to privacy in the digital age: the new interpretation of an old right
Lidia Marôpo, Ana Jorge, Inês Vitorino Sampaio and Raiana de Carvalho – Digital rights and young people with cancer: perspectives from Portugal and Brazil
Session 6: Rights to digital literacies
Toshie Takahashi – Preparing the young for Japan's global future: opportunities in digital literacy
Sara Pereira – Teenagers’ transmedia practices: Portuguese preliminary results from the ‘Transliteracy’ European study
Conceicao Costa, José Rogado and Carla Sousa – Inside the “black-box”: children rights in the digital age
Speakers: Jasmina Byrne (UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti), Sonia Livingstone (LSE) and Susan Bissell (UNICEF)
Respondents: Magdalena Aguilar (Child Helpline International), Richard Riley (WePROTECT Global Alliance), and Jenny Thomas (Child Rights International Network)
Chair: David Miles (Child Online Protection)
Jasmina Byrne and Sonia Livingstone will present the Global Kids Online project, research toolkit and early findings, part of the WePROTECT initiative. The presentation will focus on the challenges of gathering global evidence on children’s and young people’s online risk and opportunities and will identify good examples for guiding national and international policy and practice. Susan Bissell will introduce Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children.
Session 7: Inequalities and digital divides
Sara Pereira – Chair
Fabio Senne and Maria Eugenia Sozio – Addressing the digital divide: internet access and children’s online opportunities in Brazil
Monica Barbovschi and Tatiana Jereissati – Gender representations and ICT among Brazilian youth in the context of children’s rights, reflections from a qualitative investigation
Session 8: Migration and belonging
Elisabeth Staksrud – Chair
Lisa Trujillo – Exploring unaccompanied refugee minors’ access to and experiences with digital media: a qualitative exploratory case study in Berlin
Nadia Kutscher and Lisa-Marie Kreß – Contexts and contradictions of digital children’s rights of unaccompanied minor refugees
Session 9: Parenting and rights in the digital age
Toshie Takahashi – Chair
Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross – Children’s digital rights: negotiating parental responsibilities in the digital age
Bojana Lobe, Anca Velicu, Michael Dreier, Stephane Chaudron, Monica Gemo, Rosanna Di Gioia – Cross-case Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) identifying patterns of ICT use and parental mediation of very young children
Ana Francisca Monteiro – Parental mediation in the use of technology by children: Paradoxes of imposing restrictions
Session 10: Online information and children's rights
Monica Barbovschi – Chair
Laura Moorhead – Open access to biomedical information in regard to the public health of children and young people: a discussion of equity and policy
Camille Tilleul and Pierre Fastrez – How can website design support young people searching information regarding their rights online?
Shulamit Almog and Liat Franco – Wild playgrounds - social networks as lawless domains
Session 11: Public and private responsibilities for children's rights online
Alicia Blum-Ross – Chair
Leigh Campoamor – Digital technologies and child labour in the age of transnational corporate social responsibility
Tijana Milosevic – Towards a rights-based self-regulatory framework: assessing the responsibility of social media companies in addressing bullying
Eva Lievens – Ending the shifting game: towards true responsibility for children’s rights in the digital age
Session 12: Conceptualising children’s rights in the digital age
Uwe Hasebrink – Chair
Rayen Condeza - Expectations of parents and teachers on the digital rights of adolescents in Chile
Anthea Henderson - “Rights and/or needs? Caribbean children and the digital age
Elvira Perez Vallejos, Ansgar Koene and Derek McAuley - iRights Youth Juries: Acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections
Rapporteurs: Eva Lievens (Ghent University), Fabio Senne (Brazilian Network Information Centre), and Mariya Stoilova (LSE)
Chair: Sonia Livingstone (LSE)
The final plenary will offer some concluding points from the topics discussed during the conference. It will engage with several key themes: the interface between research with children and the wider legal/regulatory environment in terms of advancing children’s rights in the digital age; the relation between research developed in the global North and research now needed in the global South, in terms of diversifying and deepening the evidence base; interdiscplinarity and multimethod approaches – where are the existing strengths in the field and where is theory or method in need of strengthening.