Den virtuella mötesplatsen : Om de ungas användning av datorer och Internet i vardagen

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study was to illustrate how children of the "digital generation" used their computers in their everyday practice. The important in the study was children's perspective on computers interactions and communications in a digital arena. An essential item about understanding children's way to think about computers was to let children themselves speak by taking part in the study, because children's voices are seldom heard in public. The empirical material used was interviews with sex children between 13 and 15 years old. My method was qualitative. The main results showed that social relations are very important for children. The Internet gives children access to an arena where they are able to make new contacts with others as well as transcend their biological as their physical identity. An important accepts for the children in the study was the option to be anonymous. That made it possible for themselves to play and experiment with different roles such as gender, age, look, interests etc. without unmask their real identity.