Smart Play and Childhood Datafication:The Development,Alienation,and Governance Path of Intelligent Toys
Nowadays children spend their entire lives living in a field surrounded and influenced by smart devices.As low-level interactive tools used by the new generation,smart toys offer new developmental opportunities for children in the areas of playing,learning,physical health,and educational development,but they also bring complex security issues and privacy risks to our life.Children's media devices,represented by smart toys,are contributing to the formation of phenomena such as the"datafication of childhood"and the"normalization of surveillance",which not only threaten children's subjectivity,but also affect a generation's imagination of parent-child relationships and family life.In the future,academics need to study the advantages and disadvantages of children's media devices more carefully,presenting the impact of smart toys on children's physical and mental health,and guiding media devices to empower family education and help children grow happily.
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