DigiLitEY Summer School 2017: collaborative/participatory methodologies and the digital practices of young children; collective report on the summer training and workshops

Abstract

The 2017 DigiLitEY training event was aimed at postgraduate students and emergent researchers who are interested in understanding children’s digital practices through participatory/qualitative/ethnographic research and hoped to help participants develop further their understanding of how to design/carry out feasible and ethicallygrounded research with young children around their digital literacies, practices and experiences. The Summer School also was an opportunity for the COST Action, particularly in connection to the interests of WG5 (focused on research methods and ethics) to take stock of emergent methodological and ethical concerns among researchers and professionals working with young children and digital technologies. The organization of the summer school in a residential facility allowed for many moments of informal discussion among all participants and we hope was a first step in an emergent network among a heterogeneous group of early career researchers in Europe.