Full Description
Taking a life course and generational perspective, this collection examines topics such as work-life balance, transnational families, digital storytelling and mobile parenting. It offers tools that allow for an informed and critical understanding of ICTs and family dynamics.
Contents
Foreword: The family has become a network ‾ Barry Wellman
Connecting families? An introduction ‾ Barbara Barbosa Neves and Cláudia Casimiro
Part I: Theoretical and methodological approaches
Theoretical perspectives on technology and society: implications for understanding the relationship between ICTs and family life ‾ Natasha Mauthner and Karolina Kazimierczak
Recursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor-network theory and strong-structuration theory ‾ Geoffrey Mead and Barbara Barbosa Neves
Weaving family connections on- and offline: the turn to networked individualism ‾ Anabel Quan-Haase, Hua Wang, Barry Wellman, and Renwen Zhang
Oversharing in the time of selfies: an aesthetics of disappearance? ‾ Amanda du Preez
The application of digital methods in a life course approach to family studies ‾ Alexia Maddox
Cross-disciplinary research methods to study technology use, family, and life course dynamics: lessons from an action research project on social isolation and loneliness in later life ‾ Barbara Barbosa Neves, Ron Baecker, Diana Carvalho, and Alexandra Sanders
From object to instrument: technologies as tools for family relations and family research ‾ Cláudia Casimiro and Magda Nico
Part II: Empirical approaches
Use of communication technology to maintain intergenerational contact: toward an understanding of `digital solidarity' ‾ Siyun Peng, Merril Silverstein, J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Woosang Hwang, Sangbo Nam, and Brianna Routh
Careful families and care as `kinwork': an intergenerational study of families and digital media use in Melbourne, Australia ‾ Jolynna Sinanan and Larissa Hjorth
Floating narratives: transnational families and digital storytelling ‾ Catalina Arango Patiño
Rescue chains and care talk among immigrants and their left-behind parents ‾ Sondra Cuban
`Wherever you go, wherever you are, I am with you ... connected with my mobile': the use of mobile text messages for the maintenance of family and romantic relations ‾ Bernadette Kneidinger-Müller
Permeability of work-family borders: effects of information and communication technologies on work-family conflict at the childcare stage in Japan ‾ Yuka Sakamoto
Afterword: Digital connections and family practices ‾ Elizabeth B. Silva
