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Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children’s Lives

Author: Alicia Blum-Ross | Sonia Livingstone |

4,560.00

Additional information

Weight 0.5 kg
Dimensions 47.50 × 35 × 1 cm
ISBN

9780190874704

Language

English

Publisher

 Oxford University Press

SKU: TMP_PUB_1642 Category: Tags: , , , Product ID: 23370

Description

  • Critiques popular screen time advice and offers an alternative vision of digital families
  • Links parenting studies to social influence of class, which is often under-discussed in relationship to the impact of technology
  • Based on robust new qualitative and quantitative research, rather than one method alone

In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. In Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross draw on extensive and diverse qualitative and quantitative research with a range of parents in the UK to reveal how digital technologies characterize parenting in late modernity, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent or support. They chart how parents often enact authority and values through digital technologies since “screen time,” games, and social media have become both ways of being together and of setting boundaries. Parenting for a Digital Future moves beyond the panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change.

 

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 – Expectations
Chapter 2 – Family life in the digital age
Chapter 3 – Social inequality
Chapter 4 – Geek identities in the digital family
Chapter 5 – (Dis)abilities
Chapter 6 – Parents and digital learning
Chapter 7 – Imagining the future
Appendix – Research methods
References
Index