Parenting for a Digital Future - How Hopes and Fears About Technology Shape Children''s Lives

In contrast to panicky headlines about clueless parents and kids glued to screens, Parenting for a Digital Future offers a balanced, in-depth exploration of the realities of parenting today. Drawing on interviews with and surveys of diverse parents-rich and poor, parenting toddlers to teenagers-the book offers a warm and deeply human depiction of how parents' hopes and fears about technology influence how they remember their own pasts, how they parent in the present, and crucially, how they shape their children's futures.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Chapter 1 - Expectations


• Chapter 2 - Family life in the digital age


• Chapter 3 - Social inequality


• Chapter 4 - Geek identities in the digital family


• Chapter 5 - (Dis)abilities


• Chapter 6 - Parents and digital learning


• Chapter 7 - Imagining the future


• Appendix - Research methods


• References


• Index

About the author

Sonia Livingstone is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published 20 books, including The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age.

Alicia Blum-Ross is a researcher, educator, and advocate who has worked in academia, industry, and civil society to study and create opportunities for children, youth, and families to more safely connect, create, and learn online.

Product details

• Authors: Alicia Blum-Ross, Sonia Livingstone, Sonia (Professor Livingstone, Livingstone Sonia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2020
• EAN: 9780190874704
• ISBN: 978-0-19-087470-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, COMPUTERS / Internet / General, Social interaction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Communication Studies, Educational strategies & policy, Social and cultural anthropology, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Social and ethical issues, Sociology: family and relationships, Communications engineering / telecommunications, Sociology: Birth, Educational strategies and policy