ABSTRACT
This chapter presents modes of thinking and doing, after childhood, which are attuned to the intensifying circulation, visibility and volume of images, texts and material objects that are becoming evident through cultures of digitalization. As G. Rose argues, digital ‘cultural objects’ are not necessarily different from others that have preceded them, and the same argument might be made about the media that contain what childhood scholars have for years termed the ‘social construction of childhood’. A key thematic and conceptual consideration has been the role of digital media in constituting children and young people’s identities. S. Livingstone argues that one implication of theories of mediatisation – which emphasise how everything and everyone is becoming mediatised, ever-faster – is that the ‘audience’ for digital media tends simultaneously to be situated everywhere and nowhere.
