Connecting Families?: Information & Communication Technologies, generations, and the life course
ISBN: 9781447339953
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Bristol University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Sociology;

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.


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