The parent app : understanding families in the digital age
Clark, Lynn SchofieldAuthor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2013.
New technologies offer new ways for families to connect, access ideas and entertainment, and manage the risks faced by children and teens, but they also bring more responsibilities, choices and challenges. 'The Parent App' explores these differences and provides the kind of guidance backed by thorough research that parents today desperately need.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
New technologies offer new ways for families to connect, access ideas and entertainment, and manage the risks faced by children and teens, but they also bring more responsibilities, choices and challenges. 'The Parent App' explores these differences and provides the kind of guidance backed by thorough research that parents today desperately need.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Risk, digital media, and parenting in a digital age -- Cyberbullying girls, helicopter moms, and internet predators -- Strict parents, gamer high school dropouts, and shunned overachievers -- Identity 2.0 : young people and digital and mobile media -- Less advantaged teens, ethnicity, and digital and mobile media : respect, restriction, and reversal -- Communication in families : expressive empowerment and respectful connectedness -- How parents are mediating the media in middle class and in less advantaged homes -- Media rich and time poor : the emotion work of parenting in the digital age -- Parenting in a digital age : the mediatization of family life and the need to act.
Internet and families
Internet
Parent and child
Social Welfare & Social Work
Social Sciences
Child & Youth Development