About the project
Digiskills will disseminate research about how young people aged 12-17 years old use the Internet and develop digital skills. Digital skills include skills, knowledge, creativity and attitudes that are connected to the use of digital media.
We draw in particular on research findings generated from the EU project ySKILLS (yskills.eu). ySkills investigates how children and young people develop digital skills and how this in turn relates to other aspects of their lives.
Our target audience are policy makers, government officials, industry stakeholders and others, including children and adolescents aged 12-17, that are interested in questions about how Norwegian children and young people develop digital skills.
Goal
The main goal of Digiskills is to share research findings from the EU project ySKILLS. This project aims to enhance our understanding of the positive long term effects that digital media can have on children and young people’s lives and wellbeing.
Financing
Digiskills has received funding from The Research Council of Norway. Grant number: 309752, awarded for the period of 01.01.2020-31.12.2021.
Our Collaborators
- The Ombudsperson for Children in Norway
- The Norwegian Media Authority
- The Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies
- The Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo
- The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training
Films
As part of the Digiskills project, and in collaboration with students at IMK, we have produced a series of short films about how children and young people develop digital skills.
Digital parenting
Professor Sonia Livingstone presents her research about Digital Parenting on Safer Internet Day, 2021.
Digital skills and risks
Cyberhate
Sexual messages 'Sexting'
Relational Risks
Children and young people's use of the Internet and Digital Media
More research is needed!
Events
“Media harm” – live webinar
On Thursday 12th November we will host a webinar (in Norwegian) where we will present research about harmful media effects for children and young people and discuss policy work in this field.
Time and place: Nov. 12, 2020 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM, Zoom
The webinar is open to everyone with an interest in research about how children and young people use digital media and how this can result in harmful consequences.
The session will be a live, online webinar that you can log into and watch on the day. The session will be primarily in Norwegian.
Program (in Norwegian)
- Velkommen til møte, info om programmet og ‘hva er en medieeffekt?’ (Elisabeth Staksrud med Niamh Ní Bhroin)
- Kunnskapsoppsummering: Oversikt over forskning om skadelige medieeffekter på barn og unge (Niamh Ní Bhroin og Siri Hausland Folstad)
- Medieskadelighet: Introduksjon til utvalget for å verne barn mot skadelig medieinnhold med Jon Wessel-Aas, leder av utvalget
- Ny forskning om barns erfaringer med seksuelle meldinger fra EU Kids Online (Monica Barbovschi, in English)
- Spørsmål og svar fra salen
About the speakers
Elisabeth Staksrud
Norwegian Media Researcher and Professor at the IMK at the UiO. She is responsible for the Norwegian part of the EU-project called EU Kids Online. Other key competencies: Children, youth, new media, safe use and online risk/regulation/rights, moral panics, media regulation, censorship, freedom of expression, institutionalized individualization, research ethics, media effects.
Jon Wessel-Aas
Norwegian lawyer who specialises in media law. He also leads the Norwegian Committee for the protection of children and young people against harmful media effects.
Niamh Ní Bhroin
Researcher at the IMK at the UiO. She was awarded a PhD in 2015 at the UiO, and is interested in digital social inclusion, media innovation and research ethics. Her focus is in particular on how minority and Indigenous children and adolescents use digital and social media. She also explores empirical cases of media innovation using theories and concepts relating to digital social inclusion, including user empowerment, participation and digital literacy.
Siri Hausland Folstad
Research Assistant at the IMK at the UiO. In her current position she works with disseminating information from the EU-project ySKILLS to Norwegian stakeholders. Additionally, Siri is conducting a literature review about media harm, children and young people, as an assignment to the Department of Culture in Norway. Siri completed her Master of Research degree in Psychology at the University of Manchester in 2019.
Monica Barbovschi
Monica Barbovschi, Ph.D, is a newly appointed researcher with the Norwegian team in the EU Kids Online network. She is also an associated researcher with the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy and a member of the Romanian team in the EU Kids Online network (previously she was the coordinator of the Romanian team between 2009-2014). Recently, she was the coordinator of UEFISCDI project Young Teams ”Friendship quality in the age of online social networks. The use and misuse of personal data among Romanian adolescents” (2015-2017) financed by the Romanian Government.