e-Youth Conference - 'Balancing between opportunities and risks?'

This event is a multidisciplinary conference on children, adolescents & information and communication technologies (ICT).  

The conference will focus on national and international research dealing with social, cultural, economic, legal, psychological and ethical issues regarding youngsters' uses of different Internet applications and mobile telephony. E-Youth will also provide a forum for good practices of sensitizing or educational campaigns. 

Among other topics, the issue of youngsters as a heterogeneous group with regard to ICT use will be covered. More precisely, the following questions will be addressed:  

• Gap in access and competences: What is the relationship between young people's ICT access and their ICT competences? How do differences in ICT uses and competences between parents/educators and children/teenagers influence dialogue and commitment of adults with minors' (online) activities? How do imbalances in access and competences create new e-gaps?
• Social differences : How do gender, social or cultural differences in ICT uses and competences lead to (new) communitarianism, forms of exclusions or introverted assertions of identities? Conversely, how can ICT offer new contact opportunities between young people with different social/cultural backgrounds?
• Distributive (in-) justice : What are the moral, ethical and philosophical considerations when reflecting on the digital gap amongst young people? 

The organisers welcome a broad audience including researchers, educators, students, policy makers, NGO and industry representatives to share research results and discuss policy and educational issues. 

Registration to this open-to-all event can be performed online. Registration requires the payment of a fee (€35 for one day, €60 for two days). Over 200 attendees are expected by the organisers. 

Event email: eyouth@ua.ac.be