Challenging Childhood, Challenging Children: Children's Rights Online

Brian H Simpson

Abstract

Children's Rights: 'States Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.' (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, art. 31) What is appropriate in the online world? Sexting: - as play; - as identity formation; - as about girl's sexuality; - as about children reinventing childhood; - as about the law being redefined.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	Digital Literacy and Self-Regulation Online: Insights for Policy Seminar - Leicester, United Kingdom Duration: 18 Nov 2011 → …

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Conference	Digital Literacy and Self-Regulation Online: Insights for Policy Seminar
City	Leicester, United Kingdom
Period	18/11/11 → …

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Law and Society

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