ABSTRACT
Research on children and digital culture needs to take into account what the term ‘child’ actually means in the context of digital media and children. The purpose of this chapter is to begin unpacking the cultural and social discursiveness of the terms child, children, and childhood, critically addressing the employment of these terms. How society defines and frames the child and childhood has major implications for how it understands the digital child, what voices children are given, how adults understand children’s relationships with technology, and which children are included in debates, and which are not.
