ABSTRACT

Unlike many orthodox approaches to children and digital media that focus on the need to protect children from harmful experiences, this chapter adopts an approach that emphasises the agency and autonomy of children in digital spaces. In doing so, it broadens the application of children’s rights in this area beyond protection rights to embrace the child’s right to act independently within digital media. It further analyses the contested nature of how children’s rights are understood in law and the effect this contest has had on the child’s relationship with digital media.