Kids Kidtech And Digital Capitalism The Fight For Our Digital Futures

Uncovering the workings of the Kid Tech industry this book explores how capitalism operates in digital spaces that are geared toward children and how this impacts children’s everyday lives. This book foregrounds the social cultural and economic logics of capitalism and the historical trajectories of how children childhood and what it means to be a child have been shaped by these logics throughout the 20th century. This is followed by three core sections of the book which examine present concerns. The first explores how young people are now entangled in digital capitalism as data the second traces how children are recruited into producing digital content and-by extension-value for digital corporations and the third explores how Kid Tech platforms are increasingly constructing digital spaces that isolate children from parental involvement. The book concludes by questioning the wider implications of Kid Tech on children’s rights and its long-term consequences. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in a wide range of fields including digital media studies children’s media studies internet studies media policy children and youth studies digital governance studies and beyond. It will also be of interest to educators and policymakers seeking to understand the complex workings of children’s digital lives. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license. |Kids KidTech and Digital Capitalism The Fight for Our Digital Futures