Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology

London School of Economics and Political Science

Three Expertise Keywords:
children, internet literacies, literacy, new-media, old-media, youth

Why Digital Media and Learning?

... the media and information landscape is rapidly becoming the main way we all understand the world we live in

Recent Posts:

Description of Current Work:

I currently direct the EC funded project, EU Kids Online (see http://www.eukidsonline.net), a network of 21 European countries comparing findings on children’s internet use, literacy, and associated risk and safety issues. Previously, I conducted a national survey and in home interviews with children and young people regarding their internet use, as part of the UK Children Go Online project (see http://www.children-go-online.net). I edited the Handbook of New Media, with Leah Lievrouw, and am editor with Kirsten Drotner of the forthcoming International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture. I am currently writing a book entitled ‘Children and the Internet’ for Polity Press.

Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:

Internet Literacy: Young People’s Negotiation of New Online Opportunities (MacArthur Series)
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262633598.101

Books include Making Sense of Television (2nd edition, Routledge, 1998): Mass Consumption and Personal Identity (with Peter Lunt; Open University Press, 1992): Talk on Television (with Peter Lunt; Routledge, 1994): Children and Their Changing Media Environment (edited with Moira Bovill, Erlbaum, 2001): The Handbook of New Media (edited with Leah Lievrouw; Sage, 2002, updated edition 2006): Young People and New Media (Sage, 2002): Audiences and Publics (edited; Intellect, 2005), Harm and Offence in Media Content (with Andrea Millwood Hargrave; Intellect, 2006): Media Consumption and Public Engagement (with Nick Couldry; Palgrave, 2007):, and The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture (edited with Kirsten Drotner; Sage, in press).