Connecting Families? : : Information & Communication Technologies, Generations, and the Life Course / / ed. by Barbara Barbosa Neves, Cláudia Casimiro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Baecker, Ron,; Carvalho, Diana,; Casimiro, Cláudia,; Cuban, Sondra,; Gilligan, Megan,; Hjorth, Larissa,; Hwang, Woosang,; Kazimierczak, Karolina A.,; Kneidinger-Müller, Bernadette,; Maddox, Alexia,; Mauthner, Natasha S.,; Mead, Geoffrey,; Nam, Sangbo,; Neves, Barbara Barbosa,; Nico, Magda,; Patiño, Catalina Arango,; Peng, Siyun,; Quan-Haase, Anabel,; Routh, Brianna,; Sakamoto, Yuka,; Sanders, Alexandra,; Silva, Elizabeth B.,; Silverstein, Merril,; Sinanan, Jolynna,; Suitor, J. Jill,; Wang, Hua,; Wellman, Barry,; Zhang, Renwen,; du Preez, Amanda,
• HerausgeberIn: Barbosa Neves, Barbara,; Casimiro, Cláudia,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.) :; 10 Black and White

Are Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) connecting families? And what does this mean in terms of family routines, relationships, norms, work, intimacy and privacy? This edited collection takes a life course and generational perspective covering theory, including posthumanism and strong structuration theory, and methodology, including digital and cross-disciplinary methods. It presents a series of case studies on topics such as intergenerational connections, work-life balance, transnational families, digital storytelling and mobile parenting. It will give students, researchers and practitioners a variety of tools to make sense of how ICTs are used, appropriated and domesticated in family life. These tools allow for an informed and critical understanding of ICTs and family dynamics.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- The family has become a network -- Connecting families? An introduction -- Theoretical and methodological approaches -- Theoretical perspectives on technology and society: implications for understanding the relationship between ICTs and family life -- Recursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor network theory and strong structuration theory -- Weaving family connections on and offline: the turn to networked individualism -- Oversharing in the time of selfies: an aesthetics of disappearance? -- The application of digital methods in a life course approach to family studies -- 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 -- From object to instrument: technologies as tools for family relations and family research -- Empirical approaches -- Use of communication technology to maintain intergenerational contact: toward an understanding of ‘digital solidarity’ -- Careful families and care as ‘kinwork’: an intergenerational study of families and digital media use in Melbourne, Australia -- Floating narratives: transnational families and digital storytelling -- Rescue chains and care talk among immigrants and their left-behind parents -- ‘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 -- Permeability of work-family borders: effects of information and communication technologies on work-family conflict at the childcare stage in Japan -- Digital connections and family practices -- Index