Professor Sonia Livingstone

Profile

Sonia Livingstone OBE, FBA, PhD is a full professor in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published 21 books on media audiences, children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment. She directs the Digital Futures for Children research centre at LSE and 5Rights Foundation and Global Kids Online with UNICEF. See www.sonialivingstone.net.

Research

Publications

Livingstone, S., Nair, A., Stoilova, M., van der Hof, S., & Caglar, C. (2024). Children’s Rights and Online Age Assurance Systems: The Way Forward. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 32(3), 721-747. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-32030001

Kostyrka-Allchorne, K., Bourgaize, J., Murray, A., Stoilova, M., Abbas, I., Bridgwood, A., Azeri, E., Hollis, C., Townsend, E., Livingstone, S., Sonuga-Barke, E., and the Digital Youth Research Programme (2025). Understanding Youth Online Experiences and Mental Health: Development and Validation of the Digital Activity and Feelings Inventory (DAFI). International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 34(2), e70028. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.70028

Livingstone, S., Jessen, R. S., Stoilova, M., Stänicke, L. I., Graham, R., Staksrud, E., & Jensen, T. Can platform literacy protect vulnerable young people against the risky affordances of social media platforms? Information, Communication & Society, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2518254

Livingstone, S. & Sylwander, K. R. (2025) Conceptualizing age-appropriate social media to support children’s digital futures. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.70006

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