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Researcher

Tom De Leyn

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37 Results

2026

Digital childhoods in classrooms : exploring young children’s agency in an educational new media environment

Elodie DevosTom De LeynRalf De Wolf

2025

Assessing Belgian adolescents’ negative digital experiences in everyday life : the mundane digital harms scale

Arturo CocchiMariek Vanden AbeeleMarijn MartensErnst KosterBram De WeverTom De Leyn

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA

Caught between autonomy and control : how Liberian teenagers perceive and navigate parental mediation of their mobile phone use

Euriahs M. TogarMarjolijn L. AntheunisMariek Vanden AbeeleTom De Leyn

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA

Exploring children’s perspectives on parental surveillance in Belgium

Ralf De WolfJulie DereymaekerGiulia MazzocchiTom De Leyn

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA

2024

Appified care? Reflections towards a cultural and individual understanding of intimate surveillance across the lifespan in the age of mobile technologies

Julie DereymaekerTom De LeynCecilia Uy-TiocoRagan GloverAnja StevicChristoph LutzLemi BaruhJonalou Labor

Imagining and performing the agentic self : an ethnographic exploration of Muslim teenage girl's mobile youth culture in Flanders

Tom De LeynMariek Vanden AbeeleRalf De Wolf

Bookchapter in Women’s agency and mobile communication under the radar

Intimate surveillance by default? Unravelling the social construction of smart home technology

Julie DereymaekerTom De LeynRalf De Wolf

Life coaches performing digital disconnection as impression management

Bert VerhulstSarah Van BruysselTom De LeynMariek Vanden Abeele

Networked gift-giving : ethno-religious minority youths’ negotiation of status and social ties in a society of distrust

Tom De LeynRalf De WolfMariek Vanden AbeeleLieven De Marez

A1 Journal Article in NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY

The good child : exploring children’s perspectives on parental connectivity, the parental gaze, and contemporary childhood

Ralf De WolfJulie DereymaekerGiulia MazzocchiTom De Leyn

Unburdening the (dis)connected individual? A digital disconnection policy paradox in Flanders (Belgium)

Tom De LeynAlice VerlindenLaura LemahieuLore GeldofMarthe MennesArturo CocchiMarijn MartensMariek Vanden Abeele

A1 Journal Article in MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION

Why, how, when, and for whom does digital disconnection work? A process-based framework of digital disconnection

Mariek Vanden AbeeleHeidi VandeboschErnst KosterTom De LeynKyle Van GaeverenDavid de Segovia VicenteSara Van BruysselTim van TimmerenLieven De MarezKarolien Poels et al.

A1 Journal Article in COMMUNICATION THEORY

2023

Datafied families and parental surveillance by default? Exploring parental care and surveillance in the construction of smart home technology

Julie DereymaekerTom De LeynRalf De Wolf

Disconnection, authenticity, and the good life : an inquiry into how online coaches embody digital well-being

Bert VerhulstSara Van BruysselTom De LeynMariek Vanden Abeele

Intimate surveillance in a smart home context : a survey study among Flemish parents

Julie DereymaekerTom De LeynRalf De Wolf

Intimate surveillance, privacy and the datafication of childhood and parenthood

Ralf De WolfJulie DereymaekerMarijn MartensTom De Leyn

Reclaiming agency in the digital neighborhood : an ethnographic exploration of ethno-religious minority youths’ performances of the masculine self

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

Toward a better understanding of minorities' privacy in social media

Ralf De WolfTom De Leyn

Bookchapter in The Routledge handbook of privacy and social media

Working towards a more equitable mobile communication research design : reflecting on gender, race, inequality and marginalization

Sara Van BruysselTom De LeynCecilia Uy-TiocoDidem ÖzkulLorenzo DalvitBert Verhulst

2022

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Children's privacy and digital literacy across cultures : implications for education and regulation

Sonia LivingstoneMonica BulgerPatrick BurtonEmma DayEva LievensIngrida MilkaiteTom De LeynMarijn MartensRicarose RoqueKatharine Sarikakis et al.

Bookchapter in Learning to live with datafication : educational case studies and initiatives from across the world

In-between child’s play and teenage pop culture : tweens, TikTok & privacy

Tom De LeynRalf De WolfMariek Vanden AbeeleLieven De Marez

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES

Networked gift-giving : ethno-religious minority youths’ negotiation of status and social ties in a society of distrust

Tom De LeynRalf De WolfMariek Vanden AbeeleLieven De Marez

Networked gift-giving : ethno-religious minority youths’ negotiation of status and social ties in a society of distrust

Tom De LeynRalf De WolfMariek Vanden AbeeleLieven De Marez

Reframing debates on youths' privacy : towards an understanding of how young people’s privacy practices unfold at the nexus of mobile youth culture and socio-cultural discourses on age

Tom De LeynLieven De MarezRalf De WolfMariek Vanden Abeele

Teenagers’ reflections on media literacy initiatives at school and everyday media literacy discourses

Tom De LeynCato WaeterloosRalf De WolfBart VanhaelewynKoen PonnetLieven De Marez

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA

2021

Book Review: Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts: An Ethnographic Perspective, by Tarik Sabry and Nisrine Mansour

Children’s reflections on privacy and the protection of their personal data : a child-centric approach to data protection information formats

Ingrida MilkaiteRalf De WolfEva LievensTom De LeynMarijn Martens

A1 Journal Article in CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW

Children’s reflections on privacy and the protection of their personal data : co-design workshops in Flanders (BE)

Ingrida MilkaiteRalf De WolfEva LievensTom De LeynMarijn Martens

Developing transparent privacy policies that children understand and like : what do children say?

Ingrida MilkaiteRalf De WolfEva LievensTom De LeynMarijn Martens

In-between child's play and teenage pop culture : tweens, TikTok & privacy

Tom De LeynRalf De WolfMariek Vanden AbeeleLieven De Marez

Mediawijsheid door de bril van jongeren

2020

A focus group study of children’s online privacy management and their understanding of personal data

Ralf De WolfIngrida MilkaiteEva LievensTom De LeynMarijn Martens

Onderzoeksrapport Apestaartjaren : de digitale leefwereld van jongeren

Bart VanhaelewynCato WaeterloosGlen JorisMarijn MartensRalf De WolfTom De LeynJoris Van OuytselEmmy VandenbusscheJoos CallensMarion Van Hecke et al.

2019

Buying into an illusory safety? A cross-sectional study examining parental fears for traffic and stranger danger in relation to their beliefs about and their willingness to use location tracking technologies for children in the Netherlands and Vietnam

Lam LuongTom De LeynMariek Vanden Abeele

Reframing current debates on young people's online privacy by taking into account the cultural construction of youth

Tom De LeynRalf De WolfMariek Vanden AbeeleLieven De Marez

Reframing Debates on Youth & Online Privacy

Tom De LeynRalf De WolfMariek Vanden AbeeleLieven De Marez