The parent app
Subtitle: understanding families in the digital age
By: Lynn Schofield Clark
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780199899616
Subjects: Social aspects; Internet and families; Internet; Parent and child
Description: The Parent App is more than an advice manual. As Clark admits, technology changes too rapidly for that. Rather, she puts parenting in context, exploring the meaning of media challenges and the consequences of our responses--for our lives as family members and as members of society.
Table of contents: title: Risk, digital media, and parenting in a digital age; title: Communication in families: expressive empowerment and respectful connectedness; title: How parents are mediating the media in middle class and in less advantaged homes; title: Media rich and time poor: the emotion work of parenting in the digital age; title: Identity 2.0: young people and digital and mobile media; title: Less advantaged teens, ethnicity, and digital and mobile media: respect, restriction, and reversal; title: Cyberbullying girls, helicopter moms, and internet predators; title: Strict parents, gamer high school dropouts, and shunned overachievers; title: Conclusion: parenting in a digital age: the mediatization of family life and the parent app.