ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the three interlinked concepts: risk, children and the Internet. These are studied with media and communication research as the core research field and framework. However, the concepts as used in this tradition have been partly influenced by two other traditions: risk as conceptualized in social sciences in general and within sociology in particular, and children as understood and influenced by developments in cultural studies in general and children's studies in particular. Online risk is seen in context of research with children as media users. The chapter presents reciprocal relationship between children and media is a substantial, multidisciplinary research field of its own reviews of the influence of childhood studies on the children and the media' field of research. In relation to the present work, endeavouring to conceptualize the understanding of what online risk is, it is social amplification of risk framework's (SARF) inclusion of the individual stations' that is of special relevance and interest for this chapter.
