The WEB CHILD Project. Why Study the Early Web’s Influence on Childhood in South Korea, the United States, and Denmark?
Lecture by Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Associate Professor of Contemporary Cultural History at the Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Much of the technical infrastructure that governs everything from our everyday lives to geopolitics was conceptualised and developed during the early period of the World Wide Web. From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, the internet became a ubiquitous household item across South Korea, Denmark, and the United States. It gradually altered everything, from politics to education to how children play. In this talk, I will present why the team working on the ERC-funded WEB CHILD project plans to study how the introduction of the World Wide Web influenced childhood cultures. I will situate the project with existing research and explain the innovation it brings about, both in terms of methodologies and in focusing on the 1990s and 2000s as a historical period.
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