Varieties of access and use

This chapter analyses the increasing variety of internet access and use experienced by children in Europe. Locations, platforms, experience and the embeddedness of the internet in everyday life are accounted for in order to provide a full picture of the first and the most immediate sociocultural layer in which\r\nchildren’s agency is exercised. Insofar as individuals’ use of technologies\r\nis socially shaped within family and peer relations, this\r\nchapter investigates the relationship between place of access, online\r\nexperience and frequency of use of the internet, within the family’s\r\nwider technological culture. It examines cross-national variations in\r\npatterns of usage and provides a classification of countries.