Digitalisierte Kindheiten und globale Veränderungen in der Arbeit von Kindern

Abstract

Digitised childhoods and global changes in children’s work
The global digitalisation of societies also has far-reaching consequences for the lives of young people. As consumers and users of digital technologies, they are becoming involved in economic processes at an increasingly early age and seemingly becoming ‘adult’ earlier than the Western childhood model suggests. On online platforms, in the world of video games and in influencer marketing, play, leisure, work and business are mixing in new ways, raising the question of whether new forms of work are emerging that have not been considered in the discourse on child labour to date. This article provides an insight into the diverse and hitherto seldom studied digital fields of activity of young people and explores the contradictions between economic exploitation and social emancipation contained therein.

Keywords: digitalisation, childhood, child labour, play, exploitation

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