Full Description
This book explores sharenting—the widespread practice of parents or caregivers sharing information about their children online—and explores how this pervasive digital practice is reshaping childhood, parenting, and family life in a networked society.
Offering a transdisciplinary framework that integrates legal, sociological, psychological, and communication-based perspectives, the book examines sharenting from the micro-level of family life to the societal macro-level. It conceptualizes sharenting simultaneously as a communicative practice, a mode of identity construction, an evolving set of family rituals, a source of intergenerational conflict, and a regulatory challenge, among other dimensions. It also addresses emerging dynamics such as influencer parenting, datafication, children's vulnerability as data subjects, and the growing risks associated with technologies that enable synthetic media, including deepfakes.
With contributors from Central-Eastern Europe, the Baltic States, Türkiye, and the Global South alongside Western scholars, the volume provides a rare comparative view of the interaction between global platforms and locally situated forms of parenting and governance. The book will appeal to scholars and students interested in parenting in the digital world from a range of disciplines: sociology, media studies, psychology, law, socio-legal studies, communication studies, childhood and youth studies, and family studies.
Contents
I. From Practice to Behavior; 1. Sharenting as a multifaceted digital practice: Comparing privacy considerations based on parental motivations; 2. Moral and affective economies of sharenting by influencers and ordinary parents; 3. Sharenting of psychological maltreatment behavior on TikTok; 4. A deceptive family photography: Toward a potential deepfake sharenting; 5. Beyond the Family Album: Motivations and Meanings Behind Sharenting; 6. Sharenting through the lens of the communicative figurations: Understanding children's reactions; 7. Adolescents Navigating Sharenting: Autonomy, Intimacy, and Care in the Mediatized Family; II. Privacy and Sharenting; 8. Towards mindful sharenting: How parents and children navigate the online disclosure of personal information; 9. Sharenting Behaviour Among Iranian Parents: Understanding the Role of Online Privacy Literacy, Privacy Attitude, and Gender; 10. Secure Parenting, Insecure Privacy: Examining Parenting Information Disclosure Through Protection Motivation Theory; 11. Insights into the consequences of sharenting syndrome: Protecting children's futures; 12. Exploring Attitudes and Perspectives Towards Sharenting: Understanding the Intersection of Privacy, Parenting, and Social Media; III. Contextualization, Conceptualization, and Legal Problematization; 13. Parents as Adversaries, Stewards, and Selves: How Academic Research on Sharenting Discursively Constructs Parent-Child Subject Relations; 14. Sharenting as portmanteau: A rhetorical carrier and cloak of patriarchy; 15. Sharenting viewed through the lens of vulnerability theory; 16. Balancing Public and Private: Sharenting and Child Rights in the Baltic States; 17. Sharenting as a subject and object of freedom of expression
