Children's and Young People's Rights in the Digital Age

We are delighted to announce that a conference on children's and young people's rights in the digital age at LSE, as a London-based pre-conference to the Leicester IAMCR conference this coming July. We hope anyone interested in researching this field will consider participating.

We see a growing momentum behind calls for the recognition of the potential of online and networked media for promoting children's rights. At the same time, researchers, child rights' advocates and internet governance experts are concerned that children's rights are being newly infringed rather than enhanced in the digital age. This raises questions for research, policy and practice:

   * Exactly how is the digital impacting on children's rights today?

   * What are the challenges to children's rights presented by the  digital?

   * How might we seize the opportunities that can accompany children's online participation to promote children's rights in the contemporary world?