Children's interdependent mobility: compositions,collaborations and compromises |
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| Authors: | Bjorn Nansen Lisa Gibbs Colin MacDougall Frank Vetere Nicola J Ross John McKendrick |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, 9.23 Doug Mcdonell Building, Parkville, Melbourne 3010, VIC, Australia;2. Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;3. Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, and Discipline of Public Health, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia;4. Glasgow School of Social Work, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland;5. Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland |
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| Abstract: | This paper discusses findings from Australian research that used a qualitative and participatory methods approach to understand how children develop and negotiate their everyday mobility. Children's mobility negotiations are discussed in reference to interactions with parents, peers and places; journeys in relation to their multi-modality, compositionality and temporality; and mobility formations in terms of ‘companionship’ – travel companions, companion devices and ambient companions. Children's mobility is characterised by interdependencies that both enable and configure this mobility. Three themes – compositions, collaborations and compromises – are used to detail and describe some of the ways these interdependencies take shape and unfold. |
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| Keywords: | independent mobility children mobility mobile methods companions interdependency |
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