Children and Information Technology

This entry outlines research areas and service issues related to children’s use of information technology. A brief overview of research between the years 1995 and 2004 is presented, followed by current research areas being explored, including children’s information seeking activities, use and development of digital libraries, collaboration with designers of information technology, multicultural use of information technologies, and activities engaged in while on the Internet. Web 2.0 technologies (social networking, blogging, podcasts), virtual gaming communities, and the integration of these social technologies within libraries and schools is also discussed

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[23]  Melissa Gross,et al.  Children's in-library use of computers in an urban public library , 2004 .

[24]  Susan Colaric,et al.  Children, Public Libraries, and the Internet: Is It Censorship or Good Service? , 2003 .

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[40]  Joanne Silverstein.  Just Curious: Children's Use of Digital Reference for Unimposed Queries and Its Importance in Informal Education , 2005, Libr. Trends.

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[42]  Holly Gunn.  Become a Google Power User , 2005 .

[43]  June Abbas,et al.  Creating Metadata for Children's Resources: Issues, Research, and Current Developments , 2006, Libr. Trends.

[44]  Dania Bilal,et al.  Children's Information Seeking and the Design of Digital Interfaces in the Affective Paradigm , 2006, Libr. Trends.

[45]  Sara M. Grimes.  All About the Blog , 2003, CSOC.

[46]  Allison Druin,et al.  The International Children's Digital Library: Description and analysis of first use , 2003, First Monday.

[47]  Dania Bilal,et al.  Children's interaction with cross-cultural and multilingual digital libraries. II. Information seeking, success, and affective experience , 2007, Inf. Process. Manag..

[48]  Dania Bilal.  Draw and tell: Children as designers of web interfaces , 2003, ASIST.

[49]  Bill MacKenty.  All Play and No Work: Computer Games Are Invading the Classroom--And Not a Moment Too Soon. , 2006 .

[50]  Allison Druin,et al.  Bringing together children and books: An initial descriptive study of children's book searching and selection behavior in a digital library , 2005, ASIST.

[51]  Leanne Bowler,et al.  Children as designers of web portals , 2005, ASIST.