Sonia Livingstone is one of the most respected researchers in the growing sector of children's online risk and safety. This past September, she and members of her EU Kids Online Network released one of the largest studies of its kind to date, a detailed, face-to-face survey, which interviewed 25,000 European children and their parents across 25 countries. We spent a few moments speaking with her about her multi-stakeholder approach to researching and what the final report means for parents, policy makers, and industry leaders. 

"Talk of the digital natives obscures children's need for support in developing digital skills." What led to this finding?

In a way it's protective as well as empowering to say that young people have this fantastic new set of digital skills. Of course, some of them are very creative and participatory, but every time I do a survey, I find that they are few and far between. Many children are not being creative. They download from YouTube but do not upload to YouTube. They look at things online but don't post comments. They certainly don't post blogs.
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