A Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children's lives

What does it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change?

Join Sonia Livingstone as she reveals how parents are forging new terrority, with little precedent or support. Her extensive research has covered a range of parents in the UK, from all walks of life, parenting children from toddlers to teenagers.

In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation.

This lecture reveals how digital technologies give parenting struggles a distinctive character, moving beyond panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of the issue.

Copies of Sonia's latest book, 'Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives', will be available to purchase at the end of the talk.

Event type

This is a theatre event, where the speaker and audience are together in our Theatre.

This event will not be livestreamed.

Accessibility

The Theatre is on the first floor and there is step-free access from the street via lift.

The closest underground station is Green Park, which is step-free.

There is space at floor level in the theatre for wheelchair users.

Seating is usually unreserved for our events. If you and your group require seating reservations, please do let us know by emailing us at events@ri.ac.uk, and we’ll be more than happy to help.

Carers can receive a free ticket to an event by emailing events@ri.ac.uk.

Our theatre is equipped with an Audio Induction Loop.

Covid guidelines

In line with government guidance, face masks are no longer mandatory. But while Covid-19 cases remain high, we recommend that face coverings are worn in our Theatre and at Ri events.