Net Children Go Mobile

Project Period:  2012 – 2014
Investor: European union
Project Type: safer internet programme

The Net Children Go Mobile project (2012-2014), co-funded by the Safer Internet Programme, aims to investigate through quantitative and qualitative methods how the changing conditions of internet access and use – namely, mobile internet and mobile-convergent media – bring greater, fewer or newer risks to children’s online safety. Participating countries include Denmark, Italy, Romania, the UK, Belgium, Ireland and Portugal, the latter three joining the project on a self-funded basis. Drawing on the experience of network members within the EU Kids Online network, the conceptual framework of the project is operationalised in a child-centred, critical, contextual and comparative approach, which understands children’s online experiences as contextualised and shaped by three intersecting circles: 1) childhood, family life and peer cultures; 2) media systems and technological development; and 3) the European social and policy context.

Researchers: Monica Barbovschi, Kjartan Ólafsson