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Youth and Digital Culture

How are children's lives structured in digital spaces or networked publics? What do these spaces look like? How do children access them and use them? Are they digital homes for institutional voices for and about children, which seek to organize, categorize, and confine children's lives to social norms as dictated by adults? Or are they digital third spaces that house children's own voices and are activated as spaces for play, subversion, and resistance? Can they be both at the same time? Who decides? How do they decide? What are the criteria by which they decide? And how does a document like the UNCRC get activated or ignored when children live online? These are all key questions worth exploring when we seek to explore the lives and experiences of young people in digital spaces.