pervasive media studio

As a content creator within a digital universe, it makes interesting reading whether you are south of any river, enough said about rivers. I can't wait for the day that these children start to find devices that will help them create there own content and there own view of the world rather than relying on us oldies to do it for them. My local gym puts emphasis on children being equal in membership to adults and altough the emphasis is on ensuring that kids loose this obesity/couch potato image, they are on to a winner as are as ensuring future adult membership is concerned. I think we as content creators have to take this on board also. If we want better content we need to nuture it in our child and not worry about there reading ability. After all kids are kids and they will do whatever they want when they are teenagers regardless of what we say.

speaking as someone from south of the river I'll ignore some of the tone of this....... but yes, the whole idea of giving technology to young children does scare people - but you have to know that radio and bicycles were once seen as bad technologies for children. There has been quite a lot published recently about attention-span and whether a generation of children brought up on screen media and games will be able to concentrate as well as book-reading children. So it could be hand-eye coordination and speed of response vs attention/concentration. There is also some theory conming out about the effect of (mobile) technologies on sense of self and notions of the individual which we discussed at one of the sessions on ethics and pervasive media. I can find refs if you want them. And trying things out on kids is always interesting, but there are stricter guidelines to follow, especially when using mobile phones.