Children’s Rights

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The Children’s Rights stream provides a platform for interdisciplinary dissemination and exchange of the latest children’s rights research. We welcome papers exploring children’s rights from a methodological, ethical, theoretical and normative perspective at local, national, European or international level. This year, the stream organisers welcome papers on the theme of the protection and advancement of children’s rights in the digital age, particularly regarding the complexity of balancing children’s digital participation with their right to protection in the digital age. Papers may include, but are not restricted to, the following themes: 

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• Criminalising Children and Young People 

• Children, Young People and ‘Sexting’ 

• Children, Young People and ‘Cyberbullying’ 

• Children’s rights and ‘Sharenting’ 

• Children, Young People and ‘Risk’ in the Digital Age 

• Children’s and Young People’s right to Privacy 

• Children’s and Young People’s right to Freedom of Expression 

• Children, Young People and Education in the Digital Age 

• Children’s and Young People’s own forms of Media and Participation rights 

• Media Regulation and Breaches of Children’s Rights 

• Responsibility of Social Media Companies 

• Rights-based frameworks to protect and advance children’s rights in the digital age 

• Social Media and Autonomous Decision Making 

• Social Media and the UNCRC 

• Ethical Considerations in Involving Children and Young People in Social Media Based Research

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Conveners

Helen Stalford (stalford@liverpool.ac.uk), Tracy Kirk (t.kirk1@leeds.ac.uk) and Faith Gordon (f.gordon@westminster.ac.uk)