Elementary School Children in the Online World: Naming and Mobilization of Rights

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Abstract

This study draws on interviews with elementary school children, parents, and teachers to explore whether and how children name online rights infringements and mobilize their rights when they experience such infringements. The findings reveal distinctions between rights infringements external to young children's social world and rights infringements that are internal to this world and are intertwined with children's close relationships. As the social world of young children is small and bounded, analyzing their online rights infringements requires an understanding of these distinctions. Naming internal infringements proved to be more complex, particularly when the injuries were masked as pranks or conducted between siblings. The infringement locale also determined whether children informed their parents, teachers, or friends about online rights infringements.

Authors

• Shiran German Ben-Hayun, University of Haifa

• Lotem Perry-Hazan, University of Haifa