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

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Sonia Livingstone (Professor, Department of Media and Communications, Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London Schoool of Economics) Alicia Blum-Ross (Public Policy Lead for Kids & Families, Public Policy Lead for Kids & Families, Google)

Parenting for a Digital Future

How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives

Sonia Livingstone (Professor, Department of Media and Communications, Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London Schoool of Economics), Alicia Blum-Ross (Public Policy Lead for Kids & Families, Public Policy Lead for Kids & Families, Google)

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Oxford University Press Inc
21 August 2020

Communication studies; Social interaction; Sociology: birth; Social & cultural anthropology; Communications engineering & telecommunications

"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."

By: Sonia Livingstone (Professor Department of Media and Communications Professor Department of Media and Communications London Schoool of Economics), Alicia Blum-Ross (Public Policy Lead for Kids & Families, Public Policy Lead for Kids & Families, Google)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 231mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 386g
ISBN: 9780190874704
ISBN 10: 0190874708
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 21 August 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Sonia Livingstone is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published 20 books, including The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age. Alicia Blum-Ross is a researcher, educator, and advocate who has worked in academia, industry, and civil society to study and create opportunities for children, youth, and families to more safely connect, create, and learn online.

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

Parenting for a Digital Future offers readers a rich and deeply nuanced picture of how children's digital technology use reflects the concerns and hopes parents have for bringing up balanced and successful children. This book is a must read for anyone who cares about children and families, including scholars, policy makers, advocates, educators and, most importantly, parents themselves. -Amy Jordan, Professor, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University The best book yet written on the dilemmas of parenting in the digital age, a period of constant innovation and change for adults and children alike. Based on in-depth studies of family life, and giving close attention to inequality and deprivation, this work is an indispensable source both for academics and the lay reader. -Anthony Giddens, House of Lords and King's College, Cambridge