Net Children Go Mobile: Final Report. Deliverables D6.4 and D5.2.

The Net Children Go Mobile project is co-funded by the EC's Safer Internet Programme (now Better Internet for Kids) to investigate through quantitative and qualitative methods the changing conditions of internet access and use – namely, mobile internet and mobile-convergent media – and whether this poses greater, fewer or newer risks to children’s online safety. Participating countries include Denmark, Italy, Romania, and the UK, who have been directly funded by the EC's Safer Internet Programme; and Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, who joined the project on a self-funded basis. the project assumes that the voice and viewpoint of children is crucial to understanding online opportunities, risks and any harmful consequences of mobile media use. To reach this goal a mix-method research design was developed. The survey was conducted in seven European countries from May to November 2013 (UK, Denmark, Italy, Romania, Ireland) and February to March 2014 (Portugal and Belgium) (Mascheroni & Ólafsson, 2014) and involved a random stratified sample of around 500 children aged 9-16, who are internet users, per country. The qualitative research main fieldwork was carried out from January to September 2014 in nine European countries (the seven involved in the survey plus Germany and Spain). There were 55 focus groups (N = 219) and 107 interviews (N = 108) and 40 focus groups (N = 180) and 44 interviews (N = 50) with adults (parents, teachers, youth workers) conducted across the nine countries.