Emotions in the mediated civic context of the family: Understanding children's and parents' mutually constitutive mediation environment

Gilda Seddighi*, Niklas Alexander Chimirri, Maria José Brites

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Abstract

This article proposes that more attention should be paid to how mediated civic engagements are shaped in a family context. Through an interpretive literature review of research that studies the family's role in mediating civic engagement, we identify several problematic conceptual understandings that create rigid distinctions between the family sphere and its members' civic engagement, as well as between their analogue and digital engagements. The article introduces a conceptual framework that has implications for further research on mediated civic engagement by taking into consideration parents', children and youth's emotions and affective relations as relevant for engaging in the civic realm.

Original languageEnglish
JournalChildren and Society
Volume36
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)1402-1417
Number of pages16
ISSN0951-0605
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2022

Keywords

  • affect
  • children
  • civic engagement
  • family
  • mediation

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