Abstract
This research provides insight to the way children perceive law and its relevance in the digital realm drawing on in- depth semi-structured interviews with sixty-six eighth- and ninth-grade students from three different Israeli middle schools. According to the findings, children experience the digital world as a precarious environment. Most children interviewed where unaware of or misunderstood relevant legal norms designed to protect web users in general and children in particular. Moreover, children experienced a lack of legal or other appropriate responses to severe incidents of cyberbullying that they experienced firsthand or witnessed as bystanders. Even though children are considered by adults to be digital savvy, as they are spending a growing share of time online and on social media apps, they have almost no awareness of their rights in this sphere. This study provides evidence suggesting that this low-level legal consciousness is responsible for the anxiety and fear articulated by the children we interviewed.
Recommended Citation
Liat Franco and Shulamit Almog,
Precarious Childhood: Law and its (Ir)Relevance in the Digital Lives of Children,
7 Penn. St. J.L. & Int'l Aff.
53
(2019).
Available at: https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/jlia/vol7/iss1/18
Included in
International and Area Studies Commons, International Law Commons, International Trade Law Commons, Law and Politics Commons