Parents’ online and offline networks: A study in four European countries

Ana Jorge*, Ranjana Das, Christine Trültzsch–Wijnen, Niklas Alexander Chimirri

*Corresponding author

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Abstract

Digital media are omnipresent in families and a significant amount of research has been conducted on how young people grow up with digital media (Chaudron et al. 2018), the role of digital media in processes of socialization (Jorge 2020), potential risks and opportunities of children’s and adolescent’s use of digital media (Smahel et al. 2020) as well as on parental mediation strategies (Paus-Hasebrink, 2018). Less is known about how digital media, and in digital platforms in particular, shape networking among parents. Whilst there has been a proliferation of both formal and often conflicting parenting advice online, an increasing reliance on technology for schools and parents to communicate, and numerous apps and platforms for parents to connect informally, we do not know enough about the diversity, difference, exclusivities and marginalities that these mediated connections produce and maintain.
In order to get a first insight in this field we conducted a qualitative pilot study in four European countries (Austria, Denmark, Portugal, United Kingdom). In each of the countries we conducted four interviews with families that were selected on the principle of constructing the most heterogeneity (number and age of children, SES, type of family, migration status etc.) resulting in a total sample of 16 families. The interviews were conducted in June and July 2021. The focus of our research was on how structural and cultural factors shape the role that digital platforms play in the production and maintenance of parent networks but also on how digital networking among parents influences the handling of crucible moments in family live (e.g. divorce, relocation) as well as in the context of developmental and educational challenges (e.g. starting to go to school, puberty etc.). In our presentation we will focus on the juxtaposition of offline and online networks which often accentuates the processes of family’s social (dis)integration. We will discuss the impact digital platforms have on parent networks.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdato2022
StatusUdgivet - 2022
Begivenhed9th European Communication Conference: Rethink Impact - Aarhus University, Aarhus, Danmark
Varighed: 19 okt. 2022 → 22 okt. 2022
Konferencens nummer: 9
https://conferences.au.dk/ecrea2022/

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Konference9th European Communication Conference
Nummer9
LokationAarhus University
Land/OmrådeDanmark
ByAarhus
Periode19/10/2022 → 22/10/2022
AndetFor the ECREA 2022 conference in Aarhus, the theme “Rethink Impact” serves as a frame for discussing how media and communication research, education, and training interact with, impact on and reflect society. The theme resonates with preceding initiatives in Aarhus and the vision of Aarhus University for 2020–2025. It builds upon the university’s long-term strategies and fruitful collaborative partnerships with the business community, the city admin-<br/>istration, the region and civil society. The theme of the conference also resonates with the experiences from Aarhus as a European Capital of Culture in 2017 with the motto “Let’s Rethink” and the related rethinkIMPACTS 2017 project between Aarhus University, The City of Aarhus and the Central Denmark Region. Impact concerns the conditions of translating research insight into tangible outcomes for society, policy and business. Impact also suggests that such outcomes from research and education can be (and should be) quanti-<br/>fied and validated. Scholars equally engage in education and teaching, public debate and advocacy, community building and outreach, to name just a few activities, which typically evade the metrics employed in university adminis-<br/>trations and assessment committees. Impact is increasingly important to justify the public funding of research on the national and European level but difficult to quantify or assess in regard to the heterogeneous ways in which media and<br/>communication research and education is practised across different disciplines. Strengthening collaboration across research, teaching, citizens, businesses and policy starts with the awareness of each other. Impact thus also concerns<br/>the conditions of working in academia, the power imbalances and hierarchies that promote or prevent innovations in research from impacting society. Overall, we suggest that the European values of inclusiveness, equality, diversity and<br/>fairness also require a revised notion of impact that research and education in media and communication studies should be shaping at this crucial time.<br/>We have invited four keynote speakers to address how they are experiencing and catering to impact demands and how they perceive these to change across time and settings. We have also put together four special panels that address<br/>questions of impact in relation to, respectively, society more broadly, private businesses, education and, digital research infrastructures. Beyond the academic part of the conference, we have organised a range of Impact tours to public events with our local partners, which delegates are invited to join. With the theme, the plenaries, special panels and impact tours we wish to open discussions – affirmative, critical and everything in between – about how we as scholars and research managers may negotiate what seems a growing range of impact demands.
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