Researching datafied children as data citizens

Most of the public and academic discourses around the datafication of childhood have been characterised by three shortcomings, namely: immediacy, atomism and essentialism. This brings me to suggest a theoretical and methodological approach to the study of the datafication of childhood that would frame the social, cultural and ethical issues arising from internet-connected toys, wearables and other IoT devices as a matter of citizenship. That is, by asking how the internet, and the Internet of Things more specifically, is re-signifying political subjectivities, including those of children, and the conditions under which citizen subjects claim their rights