Publications

Welcome to our publications page! Here, you’ll find a list of scholarly articles, books, and other resources that feature Quit Clicking Kids or cover the phenomenon of child influencing.

For magazines, news articles and podcasts featuring interviews with Quit Clicking Kids please see our Coverage In the Media page.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

‘Technology for Littles‘ – 2025 by Carrie Rogers-Whitehead. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

In Technology for Littles, parent, practitioner, and founder of Digital Respons-Ability Carrie Rogers-Whitehead combines decades of research on child development with practical tools for parents to raise healthy, responsible, and safe internet users at home. This book covers a critical gap in digital education, as schools don’t typically start digital literacy until third grade or older.

Quit Clicking Kids spoke to Ms. Rogers-Whitehead to share new ways of thinking about child privacy in the digital age.

Academic Studies

Steinberg, S. B. (2024). The myth of children’s online privacy protection. SMU Law Review, 77(2), 441–475. https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5002&context=smulr

This paper makes the argument that U.S. federal and state laws are inadequate to protect children’s online privacy in the face of rapidly evolving digital technologies, highlighting how current legal frameworks fail to provide meaningful remedies or balance privacy with children’s autonomy, and offers policy recommendations for more effective and rights-respecting protections

Annie Dunn, The Kids Aren’t Alright: Creating Greater Protections for the Children of Family Vloggers, 77 Okla. L. Rev.527 (2025). https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/olr/vol77/iss2/8

This piece examines the rise of family vlogging on social media, the resulting exploitation and privacy concerns for children featured in these videos, and recent legislative efforts to protect child influencers through compensation schemes and proposed privacy rights, while highlighting the challenges posed by parental rights and First Amendment issues.

Rivera, G. N. (2025). Social media and protection of the youth: Assessing policy safeguards and political implications (Honors Capstone, Northern Illinois University). Huskie Commons. https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2558&context=studentengagement-honorscapstones This piece analyzes gaps in U.S. state policies protecting child influencers on social media, comparing Illinois, Utah, and California, and recommends adopting France’s stronger legal framework with enhanced enforcement mechanisms to better safeguard children’s rights and prevent exploitation

For other stories on Family Vlogs, Monetization of Minors or Sharenting, see the Resources page.