"ICT use in Europe in families and leisure time -DigiGen working paper 4.1 with the working title ""Combining innovative methodological tools to approach digital transformations in families and for leisure time among children and young people""."

Fieldwork research in Greece Norway Austria Romania and the UK focusing on two age groups 912 years and 1315 years and using the following methodological tools 20 semistructured interviews in each country 100 interviews in total focusing on how children and young people spend their free time using ICTCommunication diaries via the My View application produced by groups of 30 children and young people from selected districts with different sociocultural backgrounds 150 communication diaries in total The diaries will focus on how children use ICT in their leisure time and for what purpose and also how this leisure use affects their wellbeing and mental health An online video game using Minecraft aimed at understanding the ways in which children and young people practice ownership and display their use knowledge and feelings around online games Here we will have groups of 1015 young people in each of the five countries who will be actively involved in both playing the game online and in follow up focus group discussions The groups will be facilitated and moderated by a researcher who will closely collaborate with experienced game developers based in Greece UPSPS Lead Partners UPSPS Participants OsloMet UOL AIF and UBB Duration Months 428 Questionnaires about online leisure time Children and young people spend more time on ICT in school at home and during their leisure time However we know little about how satisfied children are with the use of their free time including the time spent using a computer To investigate this question we will use the three questionnaires of the Childrens Worlds database wwwisciweborg which asks 8 10 and 12 years old children around the world what do they do with their free time and how satisfied they are with it It will be important to know to what extent using a computer determines a certain lifestyle and if it crowds out other activities as spending time with family and friends reading for fun sports or taking classes outside school time Information on general satisfaction with life and wellbeing will be also studied We will try to unravel differences across European countries Lead partner UdG Duration Months 1825