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

by Sonia Livingstone, Alicia Blum-Ross

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.

Genres: Parenting, Education

272 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2020

Reviews

[Goan B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Academisch werk over hoe ouders zich manouvreren in het digitale tijdperk. Ik ben 24. Binnenkort nog geen kinderen.

Maar goed, wel interessant om te zien hoe iedereen er maar het beste van wil maken. Mensjes toch altijd.

[Ken Chew]

Too academic to complete

[Drew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fairly academic, which has the effect of presenting a broad view of trends and perspectives without offering conclusions. I feel more prepared for this particular battle field, but this is definitely not a book with answers.