Elza Dunkels

Elza Dunkels is a senior lecturer at the Department of Applied Educational Science at Umeå University, Sweden. Her PhD from 2007 deals with young people’s own perceptions of online dangers. She is currently involved projects concerning online risk, adult’s perceptions of online dangers and sexual exploitation of young people online.

Publications

Interactive Media Use and Youth: Learning, Knowledge Exchange and Behavior
Interactive Media Use and Youth: Learning, Knowledge Exchange and Behavior
Elza Dunkels, Gun-Marie Franberg, Camilla Hallgren. © 2011. 318 pages.
Modern advancements in technology have changed the way that young people use interactive media. Learning from such methods was not even considered until recently. It is now...
Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices
Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices
Elza Dunkels, Gun-Marie Franberg, Camilla Hallgren. © 2011. 472 pages.
The globalization of our society has changed the social culture of young people forever. In this day and age, this online social culture is growing in size, shape, and complexity...
Young People and Online Risk
Young People and Online Risk
Elza Dunkels, Gun-Marie Frånberg, Camilla Hällgren. © 2011. 16 pages.
The authors suspect that the young perspective has been left out when online risk and safety are discussed in contemporary research. The aim of this chapter is to give a critical...
Youth and Contemporary Learning
Youth and Contemporary Learning
Gun-Marie Frånberg, Elza Dunkels, Camilla Hällgren. © 2011. 11 pages.
The aim of the chapter is to problematize the concept of learning and common views on transformed conditions for learning; have contemporary digital media reformed the processes...
Young People's Net Cultures
Young People's Net Cultures
Elza Dunkels. © 2009. 7 pages.
Sweden has a large number of Internet users, and on a global scale only Iceland had more Internet users in 2005 (ITU, 2007). The European Union funded project Safety Awareness...