Connected Parenting - Digital Discourse and Diverse Family Practices

The changing nature and perceptions of parenthood and the family have long been the subject of intense public, political and academic interest, and there has been growing attention in recent years to the role digital media and technologies can play in these shifts. Nevertheless, these themes have been under-explored from a discourse analytical perspective. Drawing on unique and extensive digital and interview data from research with nine UK-based single and/or LGB (lesbian, gay or bisexual) parents, this book advances understanding of how concepts of parenting and the family are shifting through digital connective practices that extend across families, communities and geographical borders. The nature, function and wider social implications of this ''connected parenting'' are elaborated through multimodal, multi-sited analyses that combine constructivist grounded theory, an under-utilised method in discourse and media studies, with mediated discourse analysis. Through these analyses, the book explores the relationship between everyday parenting, family practices and digital media in the lives of single and LGB parents who have used adoption, donor conception and co-parenting arrangements to bring children into their lives. Further, it examines ''connected'' family lives and practices in a way that transcends the limiting social, biological and legal structures that still dominate concepts of family in contemporary society.>

Product details

• Authors: Jai Mackenzie
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9781350262539
• ISBN: 978-1-350-26253-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Media Studies, Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, Sociolinguistics, Sociology: family & relationships, Sociology: family and relationships, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, family; media studies; sociolinguistics; social media; LGBT