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by Antonio Silva Esquinas (Author), Jorge Ramiro Pérez Suárez (Author), Raquel Rebeca Cordero Verdugo (Author)
Reflecting on the methodological issues involved in researching digital spaces with children, this book shares good practices and delves into the ethics of such research.
Social media has completely redefined how children and young people relate to each other, express themselves, and present their identities and sexualities. Yet researching social media can be a difficult and daunting task given the ephemerality of the content, its contextual hyperspecificity, the complex power relationships between users, celebrity culture, digital capitalism, and the ethical issues that arise from the reimagining of the public/private space. Using digital ethnography and creative digital storytelling workshops with children and young people aged 13-15 and 13-18 on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitch, this book studies their interactions, language, codes, the risks they take, and the victimizations they suffer.
Researching Social Media with Children will be of use to social scientists conducting online research, and to students and scholars of media studies, digital criminology, psychology, and sociology.
[The authors draw on experiences from studies carried out in Spain on children and social media by the Knowledge-Research Group on Social Problems at Universidad Europea de Madrid.]
Author Biography
Antonio Silva Esquinas holds a bachelor's in criminology, extraordinary award (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), master's in social and cultural anthropology (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), and doctorate in anthropology and criminology (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia). He is a lecturer of criminology (Universidad Europea de Madrid), main methodologist, and ethnographer at Grupo Conocimiento-Investigación en Problemáticas Sociales.
Jorge Ramiro Pérez Suárez holds a bachelor's in law from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a master's in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Edinburgh, and a doctorate in criminology from the University of Huddersfield. He is a senior lecturer in criminology applied to digital spaces at Universidad Europea de Madrid and a researcher at Grupo Conocimiento-Investigación en Problemáticas Sociales.
Raquel Rebeca Cordero Verdugo holds a bachelor's in political science and sociology from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, postgraduate degree in politics and government (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), and a doctorate in communication from the perspective of conflict (Universidad Europea de Madrid). She is a senior lecturer in applied sociology and a principal researcher at Grupo Conocimiento-Investigación en Problemáticas Sociales.
Julio Díaz Galán holds a bachelor's in philosophy from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a doctorate in philosophy (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia). He is a senior lecturer in philosophical anthropology at Universidad Europea de Madrid and a researcher at Grupo Conocimiento-Investigación en Problemáticas Sociales.
