Children and AI

Changing Digital Childhoods?
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-981-958921-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 137 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 326 g

Reihe: Studies in Childhood and Youth

This Palgrave Pivot book examines how AI-based technologies shape children’s everyday lives and imagines possible digital futures. Drawing on qualitative interviews and a child-rights approach, the authors map how new AI tools are used and understood at home, at school, and among peers. They trace shifts in family routines; education, care, and health practices; and peer cultures associated with AI; cutting through the current hype to assess both promises and risks.

Building on prior work on the datafication of childhood and family life, rethinks AI’s implications for children’s wellbeing, rights, and life chances amid rapid market diffusion. It highlights potential harms, including widening digital divides and privacy violations, and calls for child-centred, safety-by-design legal and policy frameworks. Timely and interdisciplinary, it will interest scholars, students, and policymakers across childhood studies, digital and family sociology, internet studies, children’s rights, and education.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siibak, Andra

Mascheroni, Giovanna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik E-Learning, Bildungstechnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Conceptualising AI.- 2. The Rise of AI in Children’s Everyday Life at Home and School.- 3. The Dark Side of the Automated Society.- 4. AI-Shaped Inequalities.- 5. AI-Shaped Futures.

Über Autor(innen)

Andra Siibak is Professor of Media Studies and Deputy Head of Research and Development at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research examines opportunities and risks of internet use, the datafication of childhood, digital parenting, dataveillance in education, and privacy. With Giovanna Mascheroni, she co-authored (2021).

Giovanna Mascheroni is Professor in the Department of Communication, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, and a sociologist of digital media. Her work focuses on the social shaping and consequences of digital media, datafication, and AI for children and young people. Together with Andra Siibak, she co-authored (2021).