Paperback Books by Donell Holloway

The easy interface of touchscreen technologies like tablets and smartphones have enabled children to access the digital world from a very young age. But while some commentators are enthusiastic about how this can open up a new world for play, learning, and developing digital skills, others see the dangers of yet more screens, inauthentic play, and time spent isolated with electronic babysitters that detract from interaction with parents and the learning of social skills. Including a glossary of key terms, this book draws on a three-year research project examining the realities of 0-5 years olds' experiences of these technologies in the UK and Australia. The authors draw heavily on Vygotsky and engage with other thinkers including Bronfenbrenner and Bruner. It explores how parents of young children evaluate these opportunities and concerns, and how they try to work out ways to parent in relation to technologies they did not experience in their own childhood. The book examines how digital technologies fit in with other elements of children's daily lives including their preferences, pleasures and sociability. The book also explores the extent to which grandparents, parents and educators engage with children's experience of digital technologies.

This paper gives an insight into safety, security, privacy and societal questions emerging from the rise of the Internet of Toys. These are Internet connected toys that constitute, along with the wave of other domestic connected objects, the Internet of Things, which has increased the ubiquity of the ICT within our everyday lives, bringing technology more than ever closer to ourselves and our children. What changes and challenges will 24/7 Internet connected devices, and connected toys in particular, bring to our society? What precautionary measures do parents, teachers, health care professionals, and also industry partners and policymakers, need to take in order to protect our children's play, safety, security, privacy and social life? Based on which considerations? In which timeframe? The paper offers a kaleidoscope of six experts' views on the Internet of Toys, each exploring the topic and raising questions from a specific angle, as follows: Public and industrial discourse; Safety, security and privacy concerns; Social robot-children interactions; Quantified-self of the childhood; Nature of play and, finally, Possible benefits of higher collaboration between research and the Internet connected toy industry. [Testo dell'editore]