Digital Playgrounds: Growing up in the surveillance age

Abstract

Surveillance has always been a feature of childhood. However, recent technological innovations have enabled the monitoring of young people to reach unprecedented levels of intensity and ubiquity. This collection explores surveillance practices across multiple spheres of childhood and youth, from birth to adulthood. In addition to chronicling the steady rise of such surveillance practices, the chapters in this volume identify and problematise the consequences of technological surveillance from a range of multidisciplinary perspectives.