ABSTRACT
Digital technology has evolved to its present state through a process of knowledge application about solid state physics through to the invention of the internet and World Wide Web to the ready availability of internet-enabled touch screen technologies. Moral panic is a barometer for adult perceptions of what childhood should be like in any given age and is not necessarily an effective response to the developmental niche in which children are growing up. With social media and Internet of Things (IoT) digital mediation sinking into daily life moral panic can be seen as an even less appropriate or constructive response for equipping children for life in the 21st century. High-quality content is a phrase which raises questions about the definition of 'quality' and the kind of debate we are already familiar with around high culture and popular-culture in music, films and art. Research publications are not immune either from expressions of concern that appear to be based on an untheorised position on technology.
