Connecting Families?: Information & Communication Technologies, Generations, and the Life Course

ISBN-13: 9781447339946 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 324 str.

Barbara Barbosa Neves; Claudia Casimiro

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Foreword: The family has become a network ~ Barry Wellman Connecting families? An introduction ~ Barbara Barbosa Neves and Cláudia Casimiro Part I: Theoretical and methodological approaches Theoretical perspectives on technology and society: implications for understanding the relationship between ICTs and family life ~ Natasha Mauthner and Karolina Kazimierczak Recursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor-network theory and strong-structuration theory ~ Geoffrey Mead and Barbara Barbosa Neves Weaving family connections on- and offline: the turn to networked individualism ~ Anabel Quan-Haase, Hua Wang, Barry Wellman, and Renwen Zhang Oversharing in the time of selfies: an aesthetics of disappearance? ~ Amanda du Preez The application of digital methods in a life course approach to family studies ~ Alexia Maddox Cross-disciplinary research methods to study technology use, family, and life course dynamics: lessons from an action research project on social isolation and loneliness in later life ~ Barbara Barbosa Neves, Ron Baecker, Diana Carvalho, and Alexandra Sanders From object to instrument: technologies as tools for family relations and family research ~ Cláudia Casimiro and Magda Nico Part II: Empirical approaches Use of communication technology to maintain intergenerational contact: toward an understanding of ‘digital solidarity’ ~ Siyun Peng, Merril Silverstein, J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Woosang Hwang, Sangbo Nam, and Brianna Routh Careful families and care as ‘kinwork’: an intergenerational study of families and digital media use in Melbourne, Australia ~ Jolynna Sinanan and Larissa Hjorth Floating narratives: transnational families and digital storytelling ~ Catalina Arango Patiño Rescue chains and care talk among immigrants and their left-behind parents ~ Sondra Cuban ‘Wherever you go, wherever you are, I am with you … connected with my mobile’: the use of mobile text messages for the maintenance of family and romantic relations ~ Bernadette Kneidinger-Müller Permeability of work-family borders: effects of information and communication technologies on work-family conflict at the childcare stage in Japan ~ Yuka Sakamoto Afterword: Digital connections and family practices ~ Elizabeth B. Silva