Maintaining family stability in the age of digital technologies: An analysis of d/Discourse informing domestic screen media practices in three US families

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah Willett ◽  
Nathan Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Family Stability ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
Media Practices

From Street Corners to Social Media: The Changing Location of Youth Citizenship in Guinea

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clovis Bergère
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Youth Citizenship ◽  
Media Practices

Abstract:This study explores social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter in particular, as emergent sites of youth citizenship in Guinea. These need to be understood within a longer history of youth citizenship, one that includes street corners and other informal mediations of youth politics. This counters dominant discourses both within the Guinean public sphere and in academic research that decry Guinean social media practices as lacking, or Guinean youth as frivolous or inconsequential in their online political engagements. Instead, young Guineans’ emergent digital practices need to be approached as productive political engagements. This contributes to debates about African youths by examining the role of digital technologies in shaping young Africans’ political horizons.

scholarly journals Afterword: Visual Research in Migration. (In)Visibilities, Participation, Discourses

2021 ◽  
pp. 327-343
Author(s):  
Patricia Prieto-Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Early Adopters ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The One ◽  
Media Practices

AbstractProfound developments in terms of scale, diversity of digital media and prosumerism (García-Galera & Valdivia, 2014; Madianou, 2011) in the last decade have resulted in vast monitoring of movement, migratory or otherwise. While migrants have been outlined as digital natives, early adopters and heavy users of digital technologies (Ponzanesi & Leurs, 2014); the intersection of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) and migration is still under-researched (Oiarzabal & Reips 2012), Madianou’s (2011) work being a notable exception. As Leurs and Prabhakar highlight (2018, p. 247), the implications of the rise of ubiquitous and pervasive technologies (software and hardware) for the migration experience can be grouped in two sets of media practices. On the one hand, these technologies are used to reproduce and (forcefully) enforce top-down control by (state) authorities. On the other, they enable migrants - both voluntary and forced - to connect (dis)affectively, manage kinship and other relationships (Cabalquinto, 2018; Madianou, 2012; Prieto-Blanco, 2016), participate in collective processes (Siapera & Veikou, 2013; Martínez Martínez, 2017; Özdemir, Mutluer & Özyürek, 2019), establish a sense of belonging (Yue, Li, Jin, & Feldman, 2013; Budarick, 2015; Gencel-Bek & Prieto-Blanco, 2020), and move money across borders (Aker, 2018; Batista & Narciso, 2013). “[T]he transformed epistolary base and the communication infrastructure of the migrant experience” (Hedge 2016, p. 3), with their distinct affordances, impact on how migration is currently understood via a focus on connectivity and presence. Stay in touch. Remain within reaching distance. Leave, but let your presence linger.

Mobile Screen Media Practices in Korea

2015 ◽  
pp. 1103-1109
Author(s):  
HyeRyoung Ok
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
And Gender ◽  
3G Mobile Phone ◽  
Media Practices

This article summarizes the current knowledge about the socio-cultural significance of mobile screen media practices in the current mediascape of Korea, where mobile media technologies have developed with continuing emphasis on their potential as convergent screen media since the introduction of 3G mobile phone service. Five specific areas of discussion including mobile phone communication, text messaging, mobile multimedia usage and gender, mobile screen service, and mobile gaming represents the prevalent aspects of the mobile screen media practices in Korea.

scholarly journals Digital Parenting: Media Uses in Parenting Routines during the First Two Years of Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Yehuda Bar Lev ◽  
Nelly Elias
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Parental Awareness ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
Media Habits ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Depth Interviews

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children younger than 18 months of age should have no access to screen media, while children aged 18 to 24 months may be allowed occasional viewing of high-quality children’s programs together with their parents. Despite these stringent recommendations, however, television and digital devices manifest significant presence in the everyday lives of very young children, even during infancy. Therefore, major empirical efforts were exerted to reveal various predictors of young children’s screen time and suggest effective means for its reduction. Along these lines, the present study examined parental media practices applied during infancy and early toddlerhood and how these practices contribute to children’s excessive media exposure during the first two years of their life. It was based on a longitudinal study which followed ten families with children from the age of three months until they reached two years, and included a series of observations at the families’ homes and in-depth interviews with parents. The findings reveal that parents extensively exposed their children to screen devices, which played a significant role in the daily parenting routines. All parents used screens as a “background,” a “babysitter”, a “pacifier” and a “childcare toolkit”, regardless of their own attitudes towards media effects on their young children. Consequently, it is suggested to increase parental awareness towards their instrumental use of media as part of their parenting routine, which may impart unhealthy media habits and affect their children’s long-term development.

scholarly journals Preventing adverse health outcomes among children and adolescents by addressing screen media practices concomitant to sleep disturbance

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan K. Riesch ◽  
Jianghong Liu ◽  
Peter G. Kaufmann ◽  
Willa M. Doswell ◽  
Sally Cohen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Sleep Disturbance ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
Adverse Health ◽  
Adverse Health Outcomes ◽  
Media Practices

scholarly journals RELIEF FROM COMMUNICATION: PARENTAL SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES, TRUST AND CARE

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Sonne Damkjær ◽  
Clare Victoria Southerton ◽  
Anders Albrechtslund
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

The everyday adoption of digital technologies such as mobile phones and social media has had transformative effects on interactions within the family (Clark, 2013), as families become increasingly dependent on their capacities for coordinating day-to-day activities and maintaining intimate relationships (Licoppe, 2004; Ling, 2014). Concurrently, these technologies enable new forms of surveillance, allowing parents to observe their children’s movements and interactions remotely, eg. via GPS-apps (Marx & Steeves, 2010), as well as lateral forms of surveillance embedded in social media practices like ‘Facebook stalking’ (Albrechtslund, 2013). This paper explores how the surveillant capacities of communication technologies are involved in shaping relations of trust in the family, drawing on empirical data from in-depth interviews with adolescents at two schools and 17 Danish families conducted during 2017. Despite surveillance often being represented as a practice which undermines trust (Mayer, 2003; Neyland, 2006; Rooney, 2010), our findings suggest that the relationship between trust and surveillance, for the families in our study, was far less straightforward. Surveillance was an important part of care practices for parents and, in some instances, tracking technologies were able to offer a kind of ‘relief’ from social pressures to remain in contact. This paper explores the perceptions of parents and adolescents regarding using communication technologies for surveillance, to examine the nuanced constitution of trust occurring.

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