Willett, Rebekah;
Sefton-Green, Julian;
(2002)
Living and Learning in Chat Rooms.
Education et Sociétés
, 10
(2)
pp. 57-77.
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Abstract
The parents who go into Internet chat rooms are increasingly anxious due to, among other factors, many highly publicized reports of young girls who have left home and run away with much older men. Chat rooms, as well as other virtual communities, however, are discussed as spaces where new kinds of learning are taking place and where young people are able to explore new ways of communicating, as well as living. This paper studies what can be learned about what children learn when they talk in chat rooms. Based on research in a London cultural center, this paper examines the interactive relationships of four young girls, aged from 10 to 13 years, during online chat sessions (habbohotel.com). It aims to show how these young girls enjoy taking risks, try out experiences, and refine the meaning of words by launching into discussions centered on the life of pre-adolescents. Our conclusions address the way theories on informal learning can help us better understand the behavior of children toward computers, and how these theories could be useful within an educational setting.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Living and Learning in Chat Rooms |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://shs.cairn.info/journal-education-et-societ... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10000193 |
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