Transcendent Parenting - Raising Children in the Digital Age

In digitally connected middle-class households with school-going children, from toddlers through to varsity students, the practice of transcendent parenting has arisen. Transcendent Parenting addresses modern parenting in the digital world, and it reveals potential consequences for both parents and children.

About the author

Sun Sun Lim is Head of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. A professor of communication and technology, she has studied the relationship between technology and society for over 15 years. She has published extensively on technology domestication by young people and families in China, Indonesia, Korea, Singapore and Vietnam. She is a Nominated Member of the 13th Parliament of Singapore.

Summary

In digitally connected middle-class households with school-going children, from toddlers through to varsity students, the practice of transcendent parenting has arisen. Transcendent Parenting addresses modern parenting in the digital world, and it reveals potential consequences for both parents and children.

Additional text

With richly detailed stories of parental concerns about mobile media and the strategies they embrace to address them, this volume will be of great interest to parents, educators, and everyone who cares about children and contemporary family life in a digital age.

Product details

• Authors: Sun Sun Lim, Sun Sun (Associate Professor Lim, Sun Sun (Head of Humanities Lim, Lim Sun Sun
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9780190088989
• ISBN: 978-0-19-008898-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Studies in Mobile Communication; Studies in Mobile Communicatio
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, Sociology: family & relationships, Child & developmental psychology, Communication Studies, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Age groups: children, Sociology: family and relationships, Media, Information & Communication Industries