Stephane Chaudron

• Former Researcher - Joint Research Center - European Commission
• Senior Researcher at European Commission

This chapter presents the methodological lessons learned from an international, qualitative study, which explored the experiences with digital technologies of children under eight years of age and their families. The challenge was to investigate the digital engagement of young children in the home context cross-nationally, within a qualitative pers...

This report proposes a set of science-for-policy future directions for AI and child’s rights. It connects research and policy to gain insights by the interplay among different stakeholders and to go beyond the identification of ethical guidelines towards methods for practical future implementations. For the formulation of the proposed directions, w...

This report maps the digital engagement of children aged between 6 and 12 years and the perceptions and practices of their parents, related to emergency remote schooling during and after the spring 2020 lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Knowledge Working with us Procurement News & Events Our communities Knowledge Knowledge & competence centres Scientific tools & databases Publications Reference & measurement Patents & technologies Training Related topics Learning and Skills for the Digital Era How families handled emergency remote schooling during the Covid-19 lockdown in sprin...

The Report 'Cybersecurity-Our Digital Anchor' brings together research from different disciplinary fields of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service. It provides multidimensional insights into the growth of cybersecurity over the last 40 years, identifying weaknesses in the current digital evolution...

The Report Cybersecurity – Our Digital Anchor brings together research from different disciplinary fields of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service. It provides multidimensional insights into the growth of cybersecurity over the last 40 years, identifying weaknesses in the current digital evolution...

This paper describes the participatory approach chosen to develop and evaluate a new serious game called Cyber Chronix developed in the format of a digital comic strip with storytelling branches. The aim of the story entitled “Finding Data” is to raise awareness about the privacy risks and the data protection rights in the new European Union (EU) G...

Internet-connected toys (IoToys), embedded with microphones, cameras and other sensors, bring technology more than ever closer to children. This new generation of toys poses several questions, e.g. “What data can IoToys exchange? With whom? What are the possible threats?”, and raises concerns regarding the security and privacy of children. These is...

The Happy Onlife experience has contributed to children’s right to be heard in matters affecting them in their digital interactions and lives. Happy Onlife has been considered as effective awareness raising and learning tool regarding cyber security issues by its end-users, namely students, teachers, parents and educators. By playing with Happy Onl...

This paper gives an insight into safety, security, privacy and societal questions emerging from the rise of the Internet of Toys. These are Internet Connected Toys that constitute, along with the wave of other domestic connected objects, the Internet of Things, which has increased the ubiquity of the ICT within our everyday lives, bringing technolo...

Since a very early age, gaming and video watching on a variety of Internet-connected devices are among children's favourite activities. Parents see digital technologies as positive and unavoidable, if not necessary, but at the same time, find managing their use challenging. They perceive digital technologies as something that needs to be carefully...

The document reports on results of a cross-national analysis building on data coming from 234 family interviews with both children and parents, carried out from September 2014 until April 2017 in 21 countries. It exposes the key findings regarding first children’s usage, perceptions of the digital technologies and their digital skills in the home c...

This chapter reports on a study conducted in seven countries in which young children’s (aged under 8) digital practices in the home were examined. The study explored family practices with regard to access to and use of technologies, tracing the ways in which families managed risks and opportunities. Seventy families participated in the study, and i...

The concept of identity, its representation and the definition of its attributes sees essential changes in its translation into the digital world. The elements involved in the process of identification and authentication, attributes and identifiers, are created into a virtual world where physicality vanishes and elements of trust evolve, challengin...

In contemporary society, digital media are fully integrated in our daily lives, indispensable for our routines, always connected and at-hand. Our research thus explores the parental mediation of portable digital devices in fami- lies with young children, addressing the following ques- tions: (a) which are the most common parental mediation styles a...

This paper gives an insight on safety, security, privacy and societal questions emerging from the rise of the Internet of Toys, meaning Internet Connected Toys that participate along with the wave of other domestic connected objects, the Internet of Things in increasing the ubiquity of the ICT within our everyday, closer to ourselves and our childr...

This study investigates the role played by parents as mediators of young children’s access and engagement with digital technologies. In Belgium, Germany, Latvia and Portugal, qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 families in each country, including one child between 6 and 7 years old. Our findings show that parents of young childre...

JRC researchers have been investigating the risks and opportunities to children in the digital age included cyber-bullying phenomenon since 2011 to support the EU Agenda for the Rights of the Child and European Strategy for a Better Internet for Children. During the research process it emerged that, despite the huge amount of online and offline res...

Questa relazione post-evento è stata realizzata in lingua italiana per permetterne la divulgazione tra le scuole che hanno partecipato attivamente al laboratorio Happy Onlife organizzato nel corso della settimana europea della programmazione 2015 (Europe Code Week). Le attività descritte possono costituire un esempio concreto sull’utilità e efficac...

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Children and young people are very active users of digital technology from an early age. Recent research shows that children learn quickly from mirroring the behaviour of parents, of older siblings and peers. On one hand, children have acquired independency and skills within the digital world; on the other, they lack reflective and critical thinkin...

Despite the growing number of very young children who go online and who are using a wide range of technologies, little is known about children’s interactions with those technologies. This report presents a pilot qualitative study designed and implemented in collaboration with a selected group of academic partners in different European countries tha...