ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the children's on-line activities: what happens on the screen. It also focuses on how children can extend the scope of their knowledge by using the World Wide Web (WWW) to access information from around the globe and explore what this means for the local cultures in which their lives are embedded. The chapter explores the ways that children use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to communicate with both off-line and on-line friends/acquaintances and to consider how they represent their own embodied identities in the process. It explains how these connections might be shaping children's sense of place in the world, and question popular representations of cyberspace as a placeless social space. The chapter examines the cybergeographies that are evident in children's on-line activities, and emphasises the extent to which children's on-line and off-line worlds are mutually constituted. The children's on-line activities clearly demonstrate that their worlds of meaning are simultaneously global and local.
