Parents’ social networks, transitional moments and the shaping role of digital communications: an exploratory study in Austria, Denmark, England and Portugal

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16841332631111

Ranjana Das, N. Chimirri, Ana Jorge, Christine W. Trueltzsch-Wijnen

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Abstract

This paper draws upon a qualitative, exploratory study in Austria, Portugal, Denmark and England to argue that the role of digitally mediated ties in parents’ social networks is significantly shaped by offline contexts, crucible moments and transitional events in parenting journeys. The paper draws upon qualitative interviews conducted with parents across 16 families, four in each nation, to draw out how parents’ abilities to participate in, benefit from, and contribute to online networks – amidst an array of groups, forums and chat groups – is often restrained and shaped by offline factors. Particularly, the paper pays attention to transitional moments – not necessarily formal transitions, but nonetheless key events in parenting journeys which shape the course taken by digitally mediated parent networks, amidst widely uneven contexts of family support systems across the countries in the study.

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父母的社会网络、过渡时刻和数字通信的塑造作用:一项在奥地利、丹麦、英国和葡萄牙的探索性研究

本文借鉴了奥地利、葡萄牙、丹麦和英国的一项定性探索性研究，认为数字媒介关系在父母社交网络中的作用在很大程度上受到离线环境、严峻时刻和育儿过程中的过渡事件的影响。该论文借鉴了对16个家庭（每个国家4个）的父母进行的定性采访，以了解父母参与在线网络、从中受益和贡献的能力——在一系列群组、论坛和聊天群中——往往受到离线因素的制约和影响。特别是，这篇论文关注了过渡时刻——不一定是正式的过渡，但在研究中，在各国家庭支持系统普遍不均衡的背景下，育儿之旅中的关键事件塑造了数字媒介的父母网络所采取的路线。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.