[ecrea] Call for Papers - Media International Australia

Call for Papers

Media International Australia

http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mia

Theme Issue: Controlling Children’s Data

Theme Issue Editors:

Donell Holloway (Edith Cowan University)

Lelia Green (Edith Cowan University)

Abstracts due by 18 September 2017

Children pose a particular challenge when it comes to the issue of 
protecting their privacy online and controlling the use of their data, 
especially when these data are produced through their innocent 
interactions with internet-connected toys and other new media.  As 
minors, children are not constructed as agents in their own right and 
many younger children can be expected to have no understanding of 
protecting their own privacy and managing their digital footprint. 
Instead, the authority and responsibility for controlling children’s 
data is delegated to parents, teachers and other caregivers. 
Unfortunately parents in particular rarely construct children as being 
at risk from or being of interest to commercial organisations and other 
commercial agents.  Further, they often present their children as if 
they are a dimension of the parents’ own life.  In sharing, for example, 
delight at a pregnancy, or pride in a child’s achievements, a parent may 
well celebrate an event in a way that creates a digital footprint for 
the child without considering potential long-term consequences, or the 
likelihood of the child’s consent or otherwise once they reach an age of 
mature reflection.  These various factors have become increasingly 
important as younger and younger children go online, and it is these 
aspects of children’s media use, data privacy and lives online that is 
addressed in this special issue: Controlling Children’s Data.

Suitable paper topics include but are not restricted to:

•             parental constructions of children’s data

•             big data and children’s online activities

•             schools and children’s data

•             terms and conditions on children’s digital products

•             health data and children’s wellbeing

•             commodifying children’s digital interactions

•             children’s privacy and online sexuality

•             the right to be forgotten

•             the commercial use of data to engage with children (and 
their parents)

•             children’s agency regarding their data security

•             child-centred internet governance

•             critical consumer studies

 

Timeline:

18 September 2017: abstracts due

16 October 2017: authors notified of interim decision

16 April 2018: paper received for double-blind expert review

13 August 2018: revised papers delivered

February 2019: Theme Issue published by Media International Australia

For further details on the Theme Issue, or to submit an abstract for 
consideration, please email Donell Holloway (Donell.Holloway /at/ ecu.edu.au) 
<mailto:(Donell.Holloway /at/ ecu.edu.au)> or Lelia Green (l.green /at/ ecu.edu.au) 
<mailto:(l.green /at/ ecu.edu.au)>.

Submissions should include a Title, Abstract (250-400 words) and Author 
bio/s (150 words). Please attach these details in a word document and 
send via email to the editors by 18 September, 2017

About the editors:

Donell Holloway is Senior Research Fellow, School of Arts and 
Humanities, Edith Cowan University. Donell’s research expertise involves 
children and young peoples’ internet use, with particular reference to 
everyday use in the family home.  She is an experienced ethnographer 
with extensive expertise in working with very young children and their 
families. In particular, Donell has developed new qualitative strategies 
and methods for researching with pre-verbal and early-verbal children. 
Donell is a Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council 
research projects, Toddlers and Tablets – investigating touchscreen use 
of 0-5 year olds; and Digital Play – looking into 5-12 year olds’ social 
networking via children’s virtual worlds.  Donell is also closely 
involved in DigiLitEY COST Action IS1410 activities, and acts as a 
co-chair on Working Group 1: Digital literacy in homes and communities 
and is an active member of Working Group 4: Online/offline practices 
(with expertise in the area of internet connected-toys). She is lead 
author of the 2013 publication Zero to Eight: Young Children and their 
Internet Use, a foundational paper in the area of very young children’s 
internet use.  She has authored or co-authored over 50 book chapters, 
peer reviewed journal articles and/or full-text refereed conference 
proceedings.

Lelia Green is Professor of Communications in the School of Arts and 
Humanities, Edith Cowan University. She researches and supervises in the 
areas of new media, media policy, creative industries and communication 
as used in the construction of community with a special focus on 
children’s online interactions.  With Donell Holloway, Sonia Livingstone 
and Brian O’Neill, Lelia’s research includes an ARC Discovery grant 
Toddlers and Tablets: The risks and benefits that 0-5s face online. 
Lelia is a newly appointed editorial advisor for the MIA board.  She has 
co-guest edited five special issues for MIA: Digital interventions, 
2014, November; Practice led research, 2006; The new ‘others’: media and 
society post-September 11, 2003, November; Technoculture, 2001, 
February; Digital desires, 1996, August, and is the author of The 
internet: An introduction to new media (Berg, 2010).


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