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Auteur(s) : Clark, Lynn Schofield
Titre(s) : The parent app [Texte imprimé] : understanding families in the digital age / Lynn Schofield Clark
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XX-299 p.) ; 25 cm
Comprend : Preface: The parent app and the parent trap ; Part I: Digital and mobile media :
cautionary tales : ; 1. Risk, media, and parenting in a digital age ; 2. Cyberbullying
girls, helicopter moms, and internet predators ; 3. Strict parents, gamer high school
dropouts, and shunned overachievers ; Part II: Digital media and youth : ; 4. Identity
2.0 : young people and digital and mobile media ; 5. Less advantaged teens, ethnicity,
and digital and mobile media : respect, restriction, and reversal ; Part III: Digital
and mobile media and family communication : ; 6. Communication in families : expressive
empowerment and respectful connectedness ; 7. How parents are mediating the media
in middle-class and in less advantaged homes ; 8. Media rich and time poor : the
emotion work of parenting in a digital age ; 9. Parenting in a digital age : the
mediatization of family life and the need to act ; Appendix A: Methodology ; Appendix
B: Parents, children, and the media landscape : resources ; Appendix C: Family digital
and mobile media agreement.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 275-291
Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number
of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that
technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today struggle
with questions previous generations never faced: Is my thirteen-year-old responsible
enough for a Facebook page? What will happen if I give my nine year-old a cell phone?
In The Parent App, Clark provides what families have been sorely lacking: smart, sensitive,
and effective strategies for coping with the dilemmas of digital and mobile media
in modern life. Clark set about interviewing scores of mothers and fathers, identifying
not only their various approaches, but how they differ according to family income.
Parents in upper-income families encourage their children to use media to enhance
their education and self-development and to avoid use that might distract them from
goals of high achievement. Lower income families, in contrast, encourage the use of
digital and mobile media in ways that are respectful, compliant toward parents, and
family-focused. Each approach has its own benefits and drawbacks, and whatever the
parenting style or economic bracket, parents experience anxiety about how to manage
new technology. With the understanding of a parent of teens and the rigor of a social
scientist, she tackles a host of issues, such as family communication, online predators,
cyber bullying, sexting, gamer drop-outs, helicopter parenting, technological monitoring,
the effectiveness of strict controls, and much more. The Parent App is more than an
advice manual. As Clark admits, technology changes too rapidly for that. Rather, she
puts parenting in context, exploring the meaning of media challenges and the consequences
of our responses for our lives as family members and as members of society. -- Publisher
description ; The Parent App is more than an advice manual. As Clark admits, technology
changes too rapidly for that. Rather, she puts parenting in context, exploring the
meaning of media challenges and the consequences of our responses--for our lives as
family members and as members of society
Sujet(s) : Internet -- Société
Ordinateurs et famille
Parents et enfants
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199899616 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0199899614 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43765937c
Notice n° :
FRBNF43765937
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