Children and Technology

The study of technology provides rich questions for the broad field of childhood studies. These technologically oriented questions provide a critical approach to theorising the construction of [Page 376]childhood within and through particular technological paradigms, relationships, or both. More than this, these questions, through the work of Martin Heidegger, reveal the very technological essence of childhood as a construction; likewise, the study of childhood at the same time contributes to the study of technology. This entry engages with the philosophy of technology in order to highlight a range of critical issues and questions concerning childhood and technology, with a particular focus on the construction of childhood as in some way technological.