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This article addresses the the study of the relationship between childhood and technology including the most recent ideas regarding the internet and how it has been dominated by deterministic and simplistic theories.
The theories have spread rapidly and adapted to each new technological development, to become today sociological metaphors for our relationship with a wide range of technologies.
Momino and Menesis go on to talk about the current and future consequences resulting from the unequal appropriation of technology by children and young people and how this process occurs in the case of the internet-the information network characteristic of the network society.
They aim to maintain a perspective that will enable them to overcome the limitations of the reductionist, technological and dichotomic approach on which the notion of the 'digiatl divide' has been built on.

There analyses examines how the internet is approriated in different ways by different kinds of young people and that some youngsters may see the internet as a public space. They also look at the effects that parents, as main educational agents, may have in the use that young people make of the internet when they are outside schoool. Also to what extent the behaviour of parents with regard to the internet is linked to differences in their children's specific use of the internet.