Childhood Spaces in a Changing World: Exploring the Intersection between Children and New Surveillance Technologies

Rooney, Tonya

doi:10.2304/gsch.2012.2.4.331

Cited by 17 publications

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“…Through various levels of filtration, discourses of self-management permeate from state apparatus through to the individual. In the United States, this has been evidenced since 2002 through the No Child Left Behind Policy and its associated assessments of students according to a standards based curriculum, as well as in Australia since 2008, through the National Assessment Programme Literacy and Numeracy tests, which aim to evaluate both learners and teachers (Rooney 2012).…”

Section: Formulating a Critical Neo-liberal Policy Positionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Favourite places in school’ for lower-set ‘ability’ pupils: school groupings practices and children’s spatial orientations

Brown

2016

Children's Geographies

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This paper contributes to the recent turn within Children's Geographies concerned with understanding and illuminating educational inequalities. The focus is upon pupils assigned to lower 'ability' groupings, in a school under pressure to raise attainment. The objective of the paper is twofold, firstly to consider how school grouping practices affect children's sense of belonging in lessons, and secondly, to contextualise these findings against children's spatial orientations within the broader school environment. It is argued that a spatial focus may shed light upon the educational policy drivers that contribute to the exclusion of disadvantaged children. Neo-liberal imperatives of accountability and performance can be seen to shape hierarchies of belonging, where pupils' positioning in 'ability' groupings enables/limits the spatial agency that they can exert. Macro policy concerns are mapped onto micro school processes concerning the construction and governance of school spaces, using theoretical insights from Michel Foucault and R.D Sack.

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Section: Formulating a Critical Neo-liberal Policy Positionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Favourite places in school’ for lower-set ‘ability’ pupils: school groupings practices and children’s spatial orientations

Brown

2016

Children's Geographies

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“…This has also been pointed out by others, illustrating that music can create an experience of a safe and relaxing refuge when children move about outdoors [ 48 ]. Children’s all-encompassing absorption in the digital world has blurred the distinctions between the physical and the virtual domains of childhood, which prompt a need to reconsider our assumptions of children’s spatial experiences [ 47 , 48 , 50 ]. Consequently, smartphone use may have the capacity to alter the ambience of children’s spaces and thereby support valuable experiences, which may promote children’s affinity for the outdoors.…”

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Left to Their Own Devices? A Mixed Methods Study Exploring the Impacts of Smartphone Use on Children’s Outdoor Experiences

Nielsen

Arvidsen

2021

IJERPH

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The growing use of smartphones has been pointed out as one of the main reasons for the decrease in children’s outdoor time. However, there is still a gap in our understanding of how smartphone use affects children’s outdoor experiences and activities. The aim of the study is to explore children’s dependency on their smartphones, what smartphone functions children use when outdoors and how smartphone use affects children’s outdoor experiences. The study uses a mixed methods design which implements interviews with a small sample of children (N = 34) in order to help develop a questionnaire for a larger sample (N = 1148). Both datasets are included in the analysis with a complimentary perspective. The results suggest that children are highly dependent on having their smartphones available as an integrated part of their lives. However, smartphones also create favorable conditions for rich and valuable outdoor lives by expanding children’s and parents’ sense of security, children’s outdoor sociality, and children’s opportunities to mold their outdoor experiences. We stress that children’s passion for the digital world needs to be reconsidered as not ‘all bad’, but more as a condition in modern children’s lives and an asset to embrace in future strategies for actively engaging children in outdoor activities.

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“…The meaning of any media artefact is actively negotiated by the people who interact with it (Hall, 1980). Children accordingly make their own meaning of the technologically mediated conversations they have with networked toys, and that meaning can disrupt or resist the creator's message in unexpected ways (Holloway and Green, 2016;Marx and Steeves, 2010;Rooney, 2012). 2 My focus is instead on the commercial practices built into Hello Barbie as a CRM device.…”

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A dialogic analysis of Hello Barbie’s conversations with children

Steeves

2020

Big Data & Society

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This paper analyses Hello Barbie as a commercial artefact to explore how big data practices are reshaping the enterprise of marketing. The doll uses voice recognition software to ‘listen’ to the child and ‘talk back’ by algorithmically selecting a response from 8000 predetermined lines of dialogue. As such, it is a useful example of how marketers use customer relationship management systems that rely on sophisticated data collection and analysis techniques to create a relationship between companies and customers in which both parties are positioned as active participants who are able to obtain what they wish from the interaction. I use dialogic analysis to see how Mattel ‘makes sense’ of the dialogue as a dialogic partner. I argue that, in spite of the rhetoric of instantaneity and personalization, in which the technology is positioned as an immediate response to a child’s imagination, Mattel’s dialogic communication is both asynchronous and carefully crafted to fit the child’s responses within predetermined consumer subjectivities that are crafted to encourage particular kinds of consumption. Although the dialogue spoken by Hello Barbie is able to situate Barbie as an active subject, the control exercised by the company in order to elicit data for customer relationship management purposes and steer the dialogue to brand-friendly messages relegates the child to a passive role. Accordingly, the doll fails to deliver the promises of customer relationship management.

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Childhood Spaces in a Changing World: Exploring the Intersection between Children and New Surveillance Technologies

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

‘Favourite places in school’ for lower-set ‘ability’ pupils: school groupings practices and children’s spatial orientations

‘Favourite places in school’ for lower-set ‘ability’ pupils: school groupings practices and children’s spatial orientations

Left to Their Own Devices? A Mixed Methods Study Exploring the Impacts of Smartphone Use on Children’s Outdoor Experiences

A dialogic analysis of Hello Barbie’s conversations with children

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