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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Sonia Livingstone is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, education, communication, information systems, and applied psychology.

Their work covers topics related to child development and digital technology, the impact of technology on adolescents, social media and politics, privacy, security and data protection, digital mental health interventions, digital literacy in education, and digital games and media.

Frequent coauthors of Sonia Livingstone include Mariya Stoilova, Julian Sefton-Green, Giovanna Mascheroni, Kruakae Pothong, and Elisabeth Staksrud.

Sonia Livingstone's recent papers include:

  • EU Kids Online 2020: survey results from 19 countries, 2020, OAR@UM (University of Malta)
  • The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people's lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review, 2021, New Media & Society
  • Covid-19 and the digital revolution, 2020, Contemporary Social Science
  • Social media and adolescent well-being in the Global South, 2022, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Digital Literacy and Online Resilience as Facilitators of Young People's Well-Being?, 2022, European Psychologist

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SYNCHROINFO JOURNAL
  • New Media & Society
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Sonia Livingstone has contributed to several book publications with different publishers. Notable titles include "The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society" (2020) published by Oxford University Press, "Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives" (2020) published by the London School of Economics and Political Science, and "Digital Media Use in Early Childhood" (2024) published by Bloomsbury Publishing plc.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression

    Sonia Livingstone

  • Young People and New Media: Childhood and the Changing Media Environment

    Sonia M. Livingstone

  • Gradations in digital inclusion: children, young people and the digital divide

    Sonia Livingstone;Ellen J. Helsper

  • Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design

    Mizuko Ito;Kris Gutiérrez;Sonia Livingstone;Bill Penuel

  • Media Literacy and the Challenge of New Information and Communication Technologies

    Sonia Livingstone

  • Parental Mediation of Children's Internet Use

    Sonia Livingstone;Ellen J. Helsper

  • Talk on Television: Audience Participation and Public Debate

    Sonia M. Livingstone;Peter K. Lunt

  • Risks and safety on the internet: the perspective ofEuropean children. Full findings.

    Sonia Livingstone;Leslie Haddon;Anke Gorzig;Kjartan Olafsson

  • On the mediation of everything: ICA presidential address 2008

    Sonia Livingstone

  • Making Sense of Television: The Psychology of Audience Interpretation

    Sonia M. Livingstone

  • Critical reflections on the benefits of ICT in education

    Sonia Livingstone

  • Handbook of new media : social shaping and consequences of ICTs

    Leah A. Lievrouw;Sonia M. Livingstone

  • Children and the Internet

    Sonia Livingstone

  • Rethinking the focus group in media and communications research

    Peter Lunt;Sonia Livingstone

  • EU Kids Online

    Sonia Livingstone

  • Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention

    Nick Couldry;Sonia M. Livingstone;Tim Markham

  • Balancing opportunities and risks in teenagers’ use of the internet: the role of online skills and internet self-efficacy

    Sonia Livingstone;Ellen J. Helsper

  • Teen girls, sexual double standards and ‘sexting’: Gendered value in digital image exchange:

    Jessica Ringrose;Laura Harvey;Rosalind Gill;Sonia Livingstone

  • Risks and safety on the internet: the perspective of European children: full findings and policy implications from the EU Kids Online survey of 9-16 year olds and their parents in 25 countries

    Sonia Livingstone;Leslie Haddon;Anke Görzig;Kjartan Ólafsson

  • Children and Their Changing Media Environment : A European Comparative Study

    Sonia M. Livingstone;Moira Bovill

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie Haddon
Leslie Haddon London School of Economics and Political Science
Ellen Helsper
Ellen Helsper London School of Economics and Political Science
Robert Reiner
Robert Reiner London School of Economics and Political Science
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Jochen Peter
Jochen Peter University of Amsterdam
George Gaskell
George Gaskell London School of Economics and Political Science
David Buckingham
David Buckingham Loughborough University
Jackie Marsh
Jackie Marsh University of Sheffield
Lydia Plowman
Lydia Plowman University of Edinburgh
Patti M. Valkenburg
Patti M. Valkenburg University of Amsterdam

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