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The experience of EU Kids Online and Net Children Go Mobile in Europe and beyondLessons from research and future challenges
Giovanna Mascheroni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Policies and Initiatives to Promote Children’s Safe, Effective, and Responsible Use of ICT: Asia Pacific Regional Consultation, 9‐11 September 2015, Bangkok
Nearly a decade of research(co-funded by EC Better Internet for Kids)
From 2006-09, as a thematic network of 21 countries, EU Kids Online identified and evaluated the findings of nearly 400 research studies to draw out substantive, methodological and policy implications.
From 2009-11, as a knowledge enhancement project across 25 countries, the network surveyed 25,000 children and parents to produce original, rigorous data on online opportunities and risk of harm.
From 2011-14, the network expanded to 33 countries to conduct targeted analyses of the quantitative survey and new qualitative interviews with children.
In 2015, network coordination passed from Department of Media and Communications at LSE to the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, University of Hamburg.
See www.eukidsonline.net
Net Children Go Mobile replicated majorparts of EU Kids Online’s qualitative andquantitative research in selected countries in2011-14, adding a focus on mobile devices.
See www.netchildrengomobile.eu
What did we learn
How can research contribute to policy-making
Greater privatisation of children’s internet use
66
83
75
63
37
66
66
53
69
59
46
36
54
53
0 20 40 60 80 100
All
15‐16 yrs
13‐14 yrs
11‐12 yrs
9‐10 yrs
Girls
Boys
% Use at all in own bedroom 2010
% At least weekly use in own bedroom 2014
66
70
69
60
69
60
85
48
53
52
48
67
62
37
74
34
0 20 40 60 80 100
All
UK
Romania
Portugal
Italy
Ireland
Denmark
Belgium
% Use at all in own bedroom 2010
% At least weekly use in own bedroom 2014
More use ‘when out and about’ but with big age and country variations
25
44
32
15
6
26
25
12
21
13
8
3
10
13
0 20 40 60 80 100
All
15‐16 yrs
13‐14 yrs
11‐12 yrs
9‐10 yrs
Girls
Boys
% Use at all 'when out and about' 2010
% At least weekly use 'when out and about' 2014
25
47
15
13
38
14
40
11
12
21
4
6
4
20
18
8
0 20 40 60 80 100
All
UK
Romania
Portugal
Italy
Ireland
Denmark
Belgium
% Use at all 'when out and about' 2010
% At least weekly use 'when out and about' 2014
Children are going online and are given smartphones at ever younger ages
Net Children Go Mobile
10 9 8 710 10 9 8
1412 11
8
0
5
10
15
20
15‐16 yrs 13‐14 yrs 11‐12 yrs 9‐10 yrs
Used the internet Got a mobile phone
Got smartphoneEa: At first I didn't even want one! I got it for Christmas, and then my parents said: ‘Now you need a new phone, because everyone else has a touch phone’. At first I thought: 'what should I use that for, I have my Nokia phone? But then I became fond of it.(girl, 11-13, Denmark)
John: She [6-year-old sister] just wants to pretend she’s all girly, like. Blah, blah, blah. Always on the phone, texting!” (boy, 9-10, UK)
Age of first use
Most children do not climb far up the ‘ladder of opportunities’
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49
59
33
28
24
15
19
18
9
20
8
10
3
44
40
32
18
16
10
9
9
7
6
6
5
4
2
0 20 40 60 80 100
Visited a social networkingprofile
Used instant messaging
Watched video clips (e.g.on YouTube)
Used the internet forschool work
Played games with otherpeople on the internet
Downloaded music or films
Posted a message on awebsite
Visited a chatroom
Read/watched the newson the internet
Used a webcam
Posted photos, videos ormusic to share with others
Spent time in a virtualworld
Used file sharing sites
Created a character, pet oravatar
2010 2014
6
12
11
10
13
13
20
12
17
25
29
17
4
7
7
7
9
9
13
14
15
21
32
13
0 20 40 60 80 100
discuss ways ofcommitting…
Beencyberbullied
discuss ways ofphysically…
talk about orshare their…
Met onlinecontact offline
promote ways ofbeing very…
publish hatemessates that…
Received sexualmessages
Seen sexualimages online
Seen any form ofNUGC
Had contact withsomeno not…
Bothered orupset by…
2010 2014
Online risks are changing: negative UGC and cyberbullying on the rise
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IT
IE
DK
UKUK
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IE
DK
BE
20142010
30
40
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60
70
80
1 2 3 4 5
% Experienced
one
or m
ore risk factor
Average number of daily activities
European diversity
Kids Online Brazil: great penetration of mobile phones and smartphones
Devices used to access the internet Children who use a mobile phone or smartphone to access the Internet, by country and SES (%)
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43
61
61
58
79
43
52
79
43
79
69
64
91
63
36
94
89
44
59
52
56
59
72
0 20 40 60 80 100
UK
Romania
Portugal
Italy
Ireland
Denmark
Belgium
Brazil
Base: All children aged 9-16 who are Internet users.
A desktopcomputer(PC)
A laptopcomputer
A mobilephone /smartphone
73
57
65
73
55
73
48
55
86
42
65
57
70
81
48
51
52
39
60
59
55
83
35
52
0 20 40 60 80 100
UK
Romania
Portugal
Italy
Ireland
Denmark
Belgium
Brazil
Base: All children aged 9-16 who are Internet users.
Low SES
MediumSES
HighSES
But divides in the autonomy of use: higher SES children benefit from more devices and more ways of connecting to the internet
Ways of connecting to the InternetAccess to the Internet through wifi only
54
25
15
43
5
55
26
31
23
41
16
33
8
15
10
40
23
35
69
25
87
30
64
26
0 20 40 60 80 100
UK
Romania
Portugal
Italy
Ireland
Denmark
Belgium
Brazil
Base: All children aged 9-16 who use a mobile phone/smartphone to access the Internet.
Mobile webpackageand free
wifi
Mobile webpackage
only
Free wifionly
9
42
80
21
87
38
60
40
41
34
88
28
91
28
59
20
32
31
63
21
83
23
76
7
0 20 40 60 80 100
UK
Romania
Portugal
Italy
Ireland
Denmark
Belgium
Brazil
Base: All children aged 9-16 who use a mobile phone/smartphone to access the Internet.
Low SES
MediumSES
High SES
Global Kids Online: child rights and ICT
Challenges
Identifying the opportunities and barriers to children’s rights (3Ps) in a digital, global age.Developing standards for rigorous methods of cross-national comparison.Recognising the priorities, characteristics and demands of particular research contexts.Managing the relation between research, policy makers and other stakeholders so as to embed evidence in policy and practice.
Thank you
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