Sonia Livingstone is Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and

Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is author or
editor of eleven books and 100+ academic articles and chapters on media audiences,
children and the internet, domestic contexts of media use and media literacy. Recent books
include Young People and New Media (Sage, 2002), Audiences and Publics (edited, Intellect,
2005), The Handbook of New Media (edited, with Leah Lievrouw, Sage, 2006), Harm and
Offence in Media Content (with Andrea Millwood Hargrave, Intellect, 2006), Public
Connection? Media Consumption and the Presumption of Attention (with Nick Couldry and
Tim Markham, Palgrave, 2007) and The International Handbook of Children, Media and
Culture (edited, with Kirsten Drotner, Sage, 2008). Having recently directed the research
project, UK Children Go Online, for the ESRC’s e-society programme, Sonia Livingstone’s
current projects include an ESRC-funded study of the public understanding of risk and
regulation and a thematic network, EU Kids Online, for the EC’s Safer Internet Plus
programme. She serves on the DCSF’s Ministerial Taskforce for Home Access to Technology
for Children, Ofcom’s Media Literacy Research Forum, the Board of the Voice of the Listener
and Viewer and, until recently, the UK’s Home Secretary’s Task Force for Child Protection on
the Internet and, the Internet Watch Foundation. She has advised Ofcom on advertising
unhealthy foods to children and on media literacy, and advised The Byron Review on
children’s online risk. She was President of the International Communication Association
2007-8.