Early Motherhood in Digital Societies: Ideals, Anxieties and Ties of the Perinatal

ISBN-13: 9781032082011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 182 str.

Ranjana Das

Opis

Early Motherhood in Digital Societies offers a nuanced understanding of what the digital turn has meant for new mothers in an intense and critical period before and after they have a baby, often called the ‘perinatal’ period.

Spis treści

Foreword Chapter 1: Mediated mists of the early days Chapter 2: The Perinatal Ideal Chapter 3: The Good Birth Chapter 4: The two sides of support rhetoric Chapter 5: Short-lived ties, lasting implications Chapter 6: Perinatal Anxiety and its Mediated Social Shaping Chapter 7: Perinatality and the digital: Cautious-optimism Bibliography  Index 

O autorze

Ranjana Das is Reader in Media and Communication, in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. Her recent work has focused on parenting, parenthood and technology, with a particular focus on health and well-being. More broadly, she is interested in empirical and conceptual explorations of people’s everyday engagement with emerging communication technologies and has researched media audiences and users in numerous projects. Her work has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.