Sonia Livingstone is Professor of Social Psychology and Head of the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.
She is author or editor of fourteen books and many academic articles and chapters on media audiences, children and the internet, domestic contexts of media use and media literacy. Recent books include Young People and New Media (Sage, 2002), Audiences and Publics (edited, Intellect, 2005), The Handbook of New Media (edited, with Leah Lievrouw, Sage, 2006), Harm and Offence in Media Content (with Andrea Millwood Hargrave, Intellect, 2006), Media Consumption and Public Engagement (with Nick Couldry and Tim Markham, Palgrave, 2007), The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture (edited, with Kirsten Drotner, Sage, 2008), Kids Online (edited, with Leslie Haddon, Policy, 2009), and Children and the Internet (2009, Polity).
Having recently directed the research project, UK Children Go Online, for the ESRC’s e-society programme, Sonia Livingstone is now directing a 25-nation thematic network, EU Kids Online, for the EC’s Safer Internet Programme. She advises government departments as well as media, regulatory and third sector organisations on matters of children and media.