Correlations Between Deviant And Risky Online Behaviour Of 12- To 13-Year-Old Children From Three Countries

Abstract

The increasing spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) opens up new spaces of action and experience for children, in which precautions and socially accepted rules of behaviour still have to be developed or negotiated. At the same time, use changes greatly across the age groups. According to the KIM Study 2012, 7 percent of 6- to 7-year-olds use the internet/online services every day or almost every day, whereas 58 percent of 12- to 13-year-olds do so. 55 percent of the same age group are allowed to go online without asking their parents for permission, and 68 percent are logged on to a social network (predominantly Facebook). They are extremely active there, chatting, sending messages, posting what they are doing, writing comments, posting photos and videos or looking for new contacts.