This article reviews how children’s rights can be considered a driver of internet governance based on general comment No. 25 (2021) on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment. This instrument translates the rights derived...
In the digital environment, grooming—classified as a communication-based risk—has shown a steadily increasing frequency in recent years. In Hungary, increasing attention has been directed to the protection of children’s rights in th...
Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) constitutes one of the most serious forms of child sexual abuse in the digital environment, causing not only primary harm at the moment of abuse but also prolonged and repeated victimization due to the continued sto...
The criminal law assessment of consensual sexting between minors requires interpretation within a child-rights framework that accounts for children’s evolving capacities and the ultima ratio principle of criminal law. Although child self-genera...
In this article, we reflect on how practices of children’s consumer culture interfere with the exercise of rights by children who are consumers and producers of content on digital platforms. It is our aim to offer a communicational perspective...
While the digital environment offers new opportunities to realise children’s rights, their right to participation remains insufficiently reflected in digital policy frameworks. This study analyses the right of the child to be heard in the acade...
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly shape youth’s educational, social, and informational environments. Although numerous ethical frameworks and guidelines have been developed to guide AI governance, including the OECD AI Principle...
The conditions for safe Internet access and the development of skills enabling full participation in online environments are recognized in the Council of Europe’s strategy for child rights, from 2022. The guarantee of this right has implication...
1 May 2024
This article aims to reflect on the images of childhood in videos featuring child YouTubers playing, analyzing the nature of play portrayed in them and its relationship with the child’s right to play and be protected against any form of exploit...
12 March 2026
This article maps and prioritises the foundational developmental needs of children and adolescents: social development, cognitive growth, emotional regulation, identity formation, and moral reasoning. Early and excessive digital engagement is then ex...
In public discourse, and in the governance of online communities, young people are often denied agency. Children are frequently considered objects to protect, safeguard, and manage. Yet as children go online from very early ages, they develop emergen...
Play is a human right, yet opportunities for unstructured play are declining. The COVID-19 pandemic further reduced children’s play opportunities. We conducted an observational study of a novel community-based intervention (play hubs) that faci...
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is now expected to allow participants to redeem their food benefits online, i.e., via online ordering, rather than only in-store. However, it is unclear how this new be...
The development of an interactive environment that allows for a significant enhancement in interaction opportunities with information resources for a child is one of the primary tasks of the pre-school educational process organisation today. This stu...
Background: The second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) serves as a non-invasive proxy for prenatal androgen exposure. While its relationship with adult athletic ability is well documented, evidence for its association with childhood physical fitness re...