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Santa's Little Helper and Star of Instagram, Elf on the Shelf: Gendered Labour, Normalising Surveillance and Digitising a Childhood Phenomenon

Archer, Catherine; Leaver, Tama


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    <dct:description>This is a preprint of the chapter Archer, C., &amp;amp; Leaver, T. (2021). Santa's Little Helper and Star of Instagram, Elf on the Shelf: Gendered Labour, Normalising Surveillance and Digitis-ing a Childhood Phenomenon. In D. Holloway, M. Willson, K. Murcia, C. Archer, &amp;amp; F. Stoc-co (Eds.), Young Children's Rights in a Digital World: Play, Design and Practice (pp. 299–312). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65916-5_22</dct:description>
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