Digital History Seminar: Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Aarhus University)
Changing Childhoods in the Early Era of the WWW. Presentation of a new ERC Consolidator project.
Seminar
Date:
Tuesday 28 January 2025Time:
14.05 – 15.00Location:
ZoomHow has the spread of the Internet changed childhood? Parents, politicians, researchers, teachers often discuss their concerns about how the internet affects children and young people, but in fact, we know little about how the early internet shaped children’s use of digital media.
In this talk, Helle Strandgaard Jensen presents her new ERC Consolidator project about how the spread of the World Wide Web (WWW) changed childhood from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s — the decade when the Internet became part of everyday life in many homes. Children's use of the interactive and unregulated web created both optimism about children as "digital natives" and concern about risks such as internet addiction. By analysing this part of the childhood story, the project will provide important insight into how technology and culture together shape childhood—both then and now.
Helle Strandgaard Jensen is an Associate Professor of contemporary cultural history at the Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark and holds a joint-directorship at Center for Digital History Aarhus (CEDHAR).
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Last updated: 2025-01-23
Source: Department of History