DigiGen’s scientific and public engagement- examples of the team’s activities during the past six months
As we entered the final year of the project, we are now in a position to start sharing our findings to key stakeholders. Here are some examples of how we have been spreading the word to research, policy, industry partners, and the public over the last six months...
Sharing and developing knowledge between EU projects on the impact of technological transformation on children and young people
In May, DigiGen came together with three other EU projects (ySKILLS, Digymatex, and CO:RE) working on the impacts of technological transformation on children and young people to share and develop our insights between the four projects. Discussions focused on the...
DigiGen roundtables in Leicester Consortium Meeting
From the 17th to 18th of March, the DigiGen team regrouped in Leicester for the latest Consortium Meeting. The first day focused on seeing the synergies between the different areas of research: family life, civic participation, leisure, and education. We used...
New working paper “Combining innovative methodological tools to approach digital transformations in leisure among children and young people”
Our latest working paper presents an innovative multimodal approach to investigating how digital transformation affects children and young people’s free time using: Analysis of secondary data from Children’s World DatabaseInterviews with children aged 10-15 from...
New policy brief “Digital citizenship policy analysis”
Our second DigiGen policy brief critically assesses over forty policy documents relating to digital citizenship from Estonia, Greece, and the United Kingdom. This analysis explores how digital citizenship is being constructed by different policy actors across Europe....
New working paper “Integration of digital technologies in families with children aged 5-10 years”
Our latest working paper presents a synthesis report based on case studies from Austria, Estonia, Norway, and Romania from our previous working paper. This research allows us to understand further how technological transformations are affecting family life across...
What should ‘digital literacy’ look like in an age of algorithms and AI? Neil Selwyn
By Neil Selwyn, professor at the faculty of education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Children and young people have long been expected to develop digital skills and knowledge relevant to the technologies of their time. During the 1980s this took the form of...
New working paper “Multimodal research: youth becoming digital citizens”
Our latest working paper presents multimodal research exploring young people’s experience of civic participation and digital technologies. 12 young people aged between 15 and 18 from Estonia, Greece, and the United Kingdom share their experience of digital activism...
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870548.
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