EU Kids Online I + II
Children’s use of new media formed the core of this project proposal (EU Kids Online I), which was accepted at the beginning of 2006 by the European Commission in the context of the Safer Internet Plus Programme. This is an international networking initiative, which brings together the available data from across Europe on children’s use of media, makes it available to internationally cooperating partners and identifies research needs on this basis.
Institutions from 21 countries in all participated in the project group. Prof. Dr. Sonia Livingstone and Dr. Leslie Haddon from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) coordinated the network.
The entire project divided up into various priority topics, which concerned, among other things, data access, questions of methodology, the demands of internationally comparative research etc. In the last analysis, recommendations for action in future research projects and measures for dealing safely with the Internet and other online services were to be worked out on this basis. The results of the three-year project, which were presented in London on 10 June 2009, provide an overview on the status of available data, as well as on the urgent need for research and action.
One research gap will be closed with the follow-up project EU Kids Online II, in the course of which the conduct of an internationally comparative and representative survey on the risks of online usage in over 20 countries is planned. It is planned to interview children and adolescents between the age of 6 and 17 as well as their parents. The Hans Bredow Institute will coordinate the data analysis.
First results of the overall project were be presented in the context of the Safer Internet Forum in Luxemburg in 2010 as well as at the conference “Growing up in Digital Society: Internet and Value-Orientation in Germany and Europe” (event by the State Centre for Media and Communication Rhineland-Palatinate and the Hans Bredow Institute) in Berlin on 7 December 2010.
Further information is also available at www.eukidsonline.net.
Publications
Hasebrink, U.; Lampert, C. (2011): Kinder und Jugendliche im Web 2.0 - Befunde, Chancen und Risiken [Children and Young People in the Web 2.0 - Findings, Opportunities and Risks]. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 3/2011, pp. 3-17 (available online in German).
Livingstone, S.; Hasebrink, U. (2010): Designing a European Research Project on Children and the Internet: Reflections on Comparative Research in Theory and Practice. In: T. Brodasson, U. Kivikuru, B. Tufte, L. Weibull, H. Ostbye (eds.), The Nordic Countries and the World. Perspectives from Research on Media and Communication. Göteborg: Göteborgs Universitet, pp. 135-147.
Events
"Aufwachsen in digitaler Gesellschaft: Internet und Werteorientierung im Lebensalltag von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Deutschland und Europa" [Growing up in Digital Company: Internet and Value Orientation in the Everyday Life of Children and Young People in Germany and Europe], joint event of the Hans Bredow Institute with the State Department for Media and Communication Rhineland-Palatinate and saferinternet.de in Berlin on 7 December 2010.
Lectures
"Onlinenutzung und Onlinerisiken von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Europa. Ergebnisse des Projekts EU Kids Online II“ [Online Usage and Risks for Children and Young People in Europe], lecture by U. Hasebrink at the board conference of the State Media Authority Lower Saxony (NLM) in Hanover on 6 April 2011.
"Online Child Safety – Why it is Important and Which are Issues and Future Challenges", lecture by U. Hasebrink at the Multi-Stakeholder-Workshop “Self-Regulation in the Field of Online Child Safety” of the EU Commission in Brussels on 16 March 2011.
“The Merits of Inter-Cultural Research: The Case of the EU Kids Online Network”, Keynote by U. Hasebrink at the 2nd Workshop of the Young Scholars Network on Privacy and Web 2.0 in Hamburg on 3 March 2011.
„Soziale Netzwerke: Der aktuelle Stand der Nutzungsforschung“ [Social Networks: Current Status of Usage Research], lecture by U. Hasebrink at the 10th Symposium on Media Ethics, Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart, on 13 January 2011.
“Findings from EU Kids Online II: Initial Results”, lecture by U. Hasebrink at the conference “Growing Up in a Digital Society – Internet and Value Orientation in the Lives of Children and Young People in Germany and Europe” in Berlin on 7 December 2010.
"Different Cyberspaces across Europe? Towards a Typology of Young People’s Online Practices", lecture by U. Hasebrink at the Cyberspace 2010 Congress in Brno on 28 November 2010.
"Die Nutzung sozialer Netzwerke im Internet durch Jugendliche" [The Use of Social Networks on the Internet by Young People], lecture by U. Hasebrink at the 19th Federal Congress Schulpsychologie Handy&Computer@schule.de in Hameln on 18 November 2010.
Contact person
Hans-Bredow-Institut
Dependance
Warburgstraße 8-10
D - 20354 Hamburg
Tel. +49 (0)40 45 02 17 - 92
Fax +49 (0)40 45 02 17 - 99
Co-operation partners
London School of Economics
Funding
European Commission, for EU Kids Online I also: State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia, AOL, Microsoft Germany