This article reports on a study investigating how 13 young children in English-speaking countries (England, Scotland, Australia and the USA) watch engage with digital content YouTube Kids. Given increasing amount of time spend viewing these platforms, related concerns around commercial algorithms that direct their choices, research aims were to understand make choices about what watch, explore ...

Ubiquitous computing is making it possible to increase the sensory feedback from everyday spaces to attract attention to often-neglected tasks, make them safer and easier and potentially motivate new behavior. HyperReality describes distributed computing interfaces that weave existing environments with immersive sound and images to expand sensory feedback from everyday activities. This paper di...

the contrary, it is a mosaic composed by a plurality of different ideologies. At any rate, at least two major forces are dominating the scene of the change: a strong, diffused commitment toward the re-composition of a fragmented society, and a general collapse of reality, which becomes more and more merely illusion and image. This implies, on one hand, the rise of a new kind of “tribes” or comm...

Does it make sense to talk about cyberspace as an alternative social reality? Is cyberspace the new frontier for the realization of the postmodern self? For philosophers Taylor and Saarinen, and the psychologist Turkle cyberspace is the practical manifestation of a postmodern reality, or rather hyperreality (Baudrillard). In hyperreal cyberspace, they argue, identity becomes plastic, ‘I can cha...

The computer represents a new resource in developing social capital that previously did not exist among migrants. The relationship between physical space and cyberspace is discussed using the experience of migrants from Newfoundland who, although dispersed from their homeland, use the computer to maintain ties with both their homeland and others in diaspora. Three phases in the migration cycle ...