Children's digital media usage in everyday life: case study on two elementary school students' weblog behavior in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Weng, Hsiao Chen, 翁孝蓁
• Other Authors: Wu, Sophia Tsuey Jen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26909555680398139830

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 國際傳播英語碩士學位學程(IMICS) === 98 === Children use Internet for many reasons, such as playing on-line games, searching for information, downloading music and videos or doing homework. However, there is one interesting tendency that Internet has changed the boundary between the sender and the receiver. Children in this Internet age, they change their roles to become content providers. While they are blogging or uploading photos, they are processing “I media”. In the past, children invite their friends to their bedroom. They talk the secrets or playing games while they are in a parenting area. Today, ‘bedroom’ and ‘digital bedroom’ can be combined. Staying at home, and not going out, but by surfing the (world) of the web, both boys and girls of different ages are engaging in a kind of domestic or bedroom culture that take place in virtual space. In this study, children’s personal weblog may be seen as ‘heterotopias’, Michel Foucault (1986) proposed. This research concerned about children's use of blogs in their everyday life, attempted to learn children's digital bedroom culture through the analyses of all kinds of documents presented in children’s blogs, and to know how children gain identity through blogs.