Being a good digital parent: representations of parents, youth and the parent–youth relationship in expert advice

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1332/204674321X16146846761768

Glenda Wall

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Social concern about online behaviour and safety of children and youth has increased dramatically in the last decade and has resulted in an abundance of parenting advice on ways to manage and protect children online. The cultural context in which this is happening is one characterised by intensive parenting norms, heightened risk awareness, and growing concerns about the effects of ‘over-parenting’, especially in the teenage years. Using contemporary advice to parents on managing adolescents’ digital experiences, this study investigates the ways that parenting, youth and the youth–parent relationship are depicted. Parental roles, in this material, are portrayed as instrumental and pedagogical while youth are assumed to lack agency and judgement. Intensive parenting expectations are extended as parents face advice to be both highly vigilant agents of surveillance and trusted confidantes of their children, with an overall goal of shaping children’s subjectivity in ways that allow them to become self-governing.

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做一个好的数字父母:专家建议中父母、青年和亲子关系的表现

在过去十年中，社会对儿童和青少年在线行为和安全的关注急剧增加，并产生了大量关于如何管理和保护在线儿童的育儿建议。发生这种情况的文化背景的特点是严格的养育规范，高度的风险意识，以及对“过度养育”影响的日益关注，特别是在青少年时期。本研究利用当代对父母管理青少年数字体验的建议，调查了父母养育、青年和青年-父母关系的描述方式。在这种材料中，父母的角色被描绘成工具性和教育性的角色，而年轻人则被认为缺乏能动性和判断力。父母面临的建议是，既要成为高度警惕的监视者，又要成为孩子值得信赖的知己，父母的育儿期望也随之扩大，总体目标是塑造孩子的主体性，使他们能够自我管理。

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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.