Week 8 - Article 1 Abstract

Livingstone and Bovill not only reflect on some digital divides like the work of Marc Prensky's, on how teachers may be 'digital immigrants' when the article states that 'teachers are increasingly faced with children with different computer experience and expertise', but the article also expressed other digital divides, between the children themselves. The article emcompasses how changes in the media are now being reflected in everyday lives and are being assimilated. Not saying how this reflects every child, but stating that it depends on lifestyle factorsa, gender and access. Therefore showing a divide between the children instead of it being between referred to age, like Prensky.

The article is based on numerous amounts of research, and although it may not be relevant today, it does give an account of how media has shifted; shedding some light on new media and saying how 'converging screen technologies may be contributing to the blurring of boundaries between information, education, work and entertainment', which although was a concern for Livingstone and Bovill in 2003, is still a concern nowadays, with numerous arguments stating that new media affects a children in some way, good or bad.

Therefore the article looks at how children consume media, the effect that it has on education, traditional media and a look at some aspects of new media.