This article outlines and contextualizes the development of digital sociology as an
introduction to this e-special issue, charting the development of the field through the pages …

Using data from a nationally representative survey of over a 1000 young people in the UK
this paper proposes a typology of the ways young people are using the Internet outside …

Some contemporary moral panics orbit around youth sexuality and new media use. This
article addresses those moral panics by investigating teenagers' practices regarding new …

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected educational institutions deeply and globally. In the
course of the pandemic, countries around the world have tried to fill the gap that has arisen …

Abstract Theory suggests that teacher encouragement can aid students' educational
progress, but there are not yet quantitative inferential studies that assess its longer-term …

This book is concerned with the contexts, nature and quality of the participation of young
people in European democratic life. The authors understand democracy broadly as both …

The popular media often presents a negative picture of young people and technology. From
addiction to gaming, the distractions of the Internet, to the risks of social networking, the …

In 2009 Woodman has recently challenged youth sociologists concerned with inequality to
evolve from what he describes as a middling orthodoxy that misrepresents the work of Ulrich …

Drawing upon the concept of capital and its uneven distribution, as outlined by Bourdieu, the
article highlights the importance of social class, occupational status and place in …

This paper investigates whether or not the proposition that the second digital generation (or
so-called digital natives) is more engaged in social use of the Internet than older …