Sonia Livingstone
Sonia Livingstone is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Livingstone’s research takes a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, to examine how the changing conditions of mediation are reshaping everyday practices and possibilities for action.
Read more about Professor Livingstone on her personal page at LSE
Books
Professor Livingstone has published 20 books on media audiences, especially children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age (New York University Press, with Julian Sefton-Green). Her new book is Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children's lives (Oxford University Press), with Alicia Blum-Ross.
Projects and networks
She has advised the UK government, European Commission, European Parliament, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, OECD, ITU and UNICEF, among others, on children’s internet safety and rights in the digital environment.
She currently directs the Digital Futures Commission (with the 5Rights Foundation) and the Global Kids Online project (with UNICEF).
She is Deputy Director of the UKRI-funded Nurture Network, contributes to the euCONSENT project, and leads work packages for two European H2020-funded projects: ySKILLS (Youth Skills) and CO:RE (Children Online: Research and Evidence).
Professor Livingstone is founder of the EC-funded 33 country EU Kids Online research network, and is a #SaferInternet4EU Ambassador for the European Commission.
Giovanna Mascheroni
Giovanna Mascheroni is an Associate Professor of Sociology of Media and Communication in the Department of Communication and Performing Arts, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Università Cattolica, Milano.
She is a sociologist of digital media interested in understanding the societal consequences of children’s digital lives and datafication. Her research focuses especially on the datafication of childhood, digital parenting, the Internet of Toys, and associated risks and opportunities, including opportunities for political participation.
Projects and networks
Since 2014, Mascheroni has been invited to collaborate with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, first with a study on young children (0–8) and digital technologies and currently with the KiDiCoTi (‘Kids’ Digital Lives in COVID-19 Times’) project. In 2018, she was also part of a research team that provided new evidence for the ICT Coalition in the report Looking forward: Technological and social change in the lives of European children and young people. More recently, she has worked closely with the EC, JRC and OECD on the implications of AI for children.
Currently, Mascheroni has a leading role in the ySKILLS Consortium, and is Partner Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. She was Chair of WG4 in ‘The Digital Literacy and Multimodal Practices of Young Children’ (DigiLitEY) COST Action IS1410. She has also been the Italian National Contact of the interdisciplinary EU Kids Online network since 2007. She has previously been Partner Investigator of the ARC Discovery Project ‘The Internet of Toys: Examining connected toys for children’ (2018–21). From 2012 to 2014 she was PI of the Net Children Go Mobile project (funded by the EC’s Safer Internet Programme).
Mascheroni's methodological expertise includes both qualitative (ethnographic and interviews) and quantitative (cross-sectional survey) approaches. In 2019 she was awarded a competitive grant to study the datafication of childhood in Italy using a mixed-method approach. This included a two-year-longitudinal and qualitative study.