"What If" You Do Not See My Text on WhatsApp? Unpreparedness of Digital Inclusion for the Turkish Subaltern Students

• In Event: Changing Values, Practices, and Perspectives in Moral Education

Abstract

Online bullying, trolling, ideological intoxication, and exclusion are some of the complex problems faced by children in digital environments. This research aims to understand the intersectionalities and conflicts of digital ethics in children’s smart device usage experiences. Grounding on Dewey’s work on moral philosophy, we examined digital value judgments of young children using the Communicative Performance Ethnography (CPE) method. Interviews with six children (6-15 ages) from low-income backgrounds are the primary data sources. Findings indicated that (1) interpretive judgment, (2) instrumental judgment, and (3) privacy judgment are three main judgment types that define children’s digital actions such as clicking, commenting, posting, liking, sharing, or not sharing in the context of an instant messaging application, WhatsApp.

Authors

• Zulfukar Ozdogan, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Merve Basdogan, Indiana University