The overall Digital Girls program is internationally-focused and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We examine the knowledge of digital technology that Canadian, British, and South African pre-teen and teenage girls are acquiring through computer play on and off the Internet. We consider – and contest – the “digital gender divide” that is said to exist and examine girls’ voluntary engagement with technology. We are interested in mapping out the emergence of a particular digital literacy that includes technical knowledge, social uses of technology, and moral and ethical decision-making. For more information about the Digital Girls program, please see the Overview of the Digital Girls Program.
A number of projects are being conducted within the overall Digital Girls program. Please see below for more information on these. More project descriptions will be coming soon.
This website represents another project for Digital Girls. It acts as both a research tool and a way to transmit our results. We are studying the development and use of this website as an instance of adults and girls working as co-investigators, and as a site for drawing upon and studying the knowledge and critical “digital literacy” of the participant girls.
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