ABSTRACT
Second, children and young people interact with adults within the house hold, with ICT situated in the midst of these cross-generation negotiations. Crucially, one cannot be certain of the conditions of access and use for indi viduals within a household given only household information; this is espe cially the case for children because traditionally, though perhaps decreasingly, they have lacked the power to determine activities in the home. Other than in single-person households, there are many intrahousehold issues of selection and negotiation regarding media acquisition and use, and given the multiplication of media goods, one must consider the diffusion of media not only across but also within households. In effect, in order to recognize the importance of both gender and generation as they subdivide the house hold, in addition to those factors that differentiate among households, one must encompass both individual and household levels of analysis.
