The datafied child: The dataveillance of children and implications for their rights

New Media and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 780-794

  Lupton, Deborah ^a   Williamson, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; datafication; dataveillance; digital data; education; parents; rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019246887     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444816686328     Document Type: Article

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