Children in virtual worlds: conference web site
Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Jul, 2008'Children in Virtual Worlds' is the website of a joint conference held by
the BBC, the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the University
of Westminster. The one-day conference was held in May 2008, in a climate of
increasing moral panic on the topic by media commentators and pressure groups.
The conference proceedings are being placed online, and at mid July 2008 the
following academic papers are available: 'New research on virtual worlds for
children'; 'Children in virtual worlds: legal issues'; 'Researching virtual
worlds: let's talk about ethics'; 'Learning from online worlds: teaching in
Second Life'; 'Immersion and play in virtual and actual places'; and a report on
the BBC's 'Adventure Rock' online world (formerly CBBC World). Most of these
papers are in PDF form, but there is also some video from the conference. The
website also contains full details of the conference programme. The papers this
website contains will be useful for those researching new forms of interactive
media, the changing media consumption of young childhood in the UK, and also the
knowledges and attitudes about virtual worlds that young people may bring with
them in the near-future when they enter higher education. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.childreninvirtualworlds.org.uk/
http://www.childreninvirtualworlds.org.uk/