scholarly journals "Because Dads Change Diapers Too": Negotiating Gendered Parenting Discourses on Reddit Parenting Forums

Author(s):  
Hannah Feldman

Digital media can reflect and reify normative expectations in the non-digital world. Parents are increasingly engaging with online media to seek information and support. Online parenting forums therefore act as key windows into current perceptions surrounding parenthood and child rearing. My study aims to investigate differences in parenting expectations between mothers and fathers on online parenting forums. I conducted a cyber ethnography of two Reddit subforums, Mommit and Daddit, to investigate how parents negotiate gendered parenting discourses on these two parenting subforums. Using a grounded theory approach, I extract key themes surrounding mothering and fathering expectations relating to (1) parental responsibilities, (2) women and men’s self-identity as parents, and (3) mothers’ and fathers’ relationships with their partners. My discourse analysis reveals that both Mommit and Daddit work to deconstruct certain normative pressures surrounding motherhood and fatherhood, but simultaneously reaffirm traditional gendered parenting expectations. These forums act as an avenue for users to deconstruct expectations that frustrate users: Daddit users contest the expectation that fathers are not apt child carers, and Mommit users contest the expectation that women are exclusively, and naturally skilled, child carers. However, at the same time, users cannot fully escape normative pressures, and indeed these forums reinforce a gendered primary-secondary divide between mothers and fathers in caretaking responsibilities and practices.

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-270
Author(s):  
Mukhlish Rahman

AbstractThis paper talks about the tradition of reading the Koran for pregnant women, which has been a hereditary culture in society. The letters read during the procession vary, but the most frequently chosen ones are the letters of Yūsuf, Maryam, and Yāsīn. The tradition of reciting the Koran to pregnant women is later transformed and adapted to the digital world in the online media YouTube. In which in the uploaded content, it contains the reading of the Koran which in the traditions of the local community is often the choice to read. Therefore, this paper focuses on three problem formulations, first, how is the sacredness of the Koran in the digital world? Second, how is the tradition of reading the Koran for pregnant women in the community? And third, can this tradition be replaced by digital media? The research method is descriptive analytical method by describing the social phenomena that occurs. The approach is a historical-critical approach, by analyzing what are the factors that cause the phenomenon of the tradition of reading the Koran pregnant women to emerge, then it is digitally adapted into the You Tube media. The results of the research that the author gets is that with the rapid development of the times, it does not make the tradition of reading the Koran for pregnant women disappear or be abandoned, but instead this tradition can be transformed and adapted into a digital version.Although, the transformation is only limited to the physical form of reading the al-Qur'an, from the point of view of selecting the letter, it appears that it really adapts the local cultural traditions. The transformation of the tradition of reading the Koran for pregnant women into digital form, in this case You Tube media cannot replace traditions or culture such as mitoni, four months, etc. Because it contains elements of mutual cooperation between communities, which cannot be replaced by online media. AbstrakTulisan ini berbicara tentang tradisi membaca al-Qur’an untuk ibu hamil yang telah menjadi budaya turun temurun di tengah masyarakat. Adapun surat-surat yang dibaca ketika dalam prosesi tersebut bervariasi, tetapi yang paling sering menjadi pilihan adalah surat Yūsuf, Maryam, dan Yāsīn. Tradisi membacakan al-Qur’an untuk ibu hamil kemudian dalam perkembangannya bertransformasi dan diadaptasi ke dunia digital dalam media online YouTube. Dimana dalam konten-konten yang diunggah, berisi bacaan al-Qur’an yang dalam tradisi masyarakat lokal sering menjadi pilihan untuk dibaca. Maka dari itu Tulisan ini berfokus kepada tiga rumusan masalah, yaitu pertama, bagaimana sakralitas al-Qur’an di dunia digital ?. Kedua, bagaimana tradisi pembacaan al-Qur’an untuk ibu hamil di tengah masyarakat?, dan ketiga, apakah tradisi tersebut dapat digantikan dengan media digital? Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif analitis dengan mencoba untuk mendeskripsikan fenomena sosial yang terjadi. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah pendekatan historis-kritis, dengan menganalisa apa saja faktor yang menyebabkan fenomena tradisi bacaan al-Qur’an untuk ibu hamil muncul, kemudian diadaptasi secara digital ke dalam media You Tube. Hasil penelitian yang penulis dapatkan adalah dengan perkembangan zaman yang pesat, tidak membuat tradisi  membaca al-Qur’an untuk ibu hamil menghilang atau ditinggalkan, namun sebaliknya tradisi tersebut dapat  bertransformasi dan diadaptasi ke dalam versi digital. Walaupun, transformasinya hanya sebatas bentuk fisik dari membaca al-Qur’an, namun dari segi pemilihan surat tampak bahwa benar-benar mengadaptasi tradisi budaya lokal. Tranformasi tradisi membacakan al-Qur’an untuk ibu hamil ke dalam bentuk digital, dalam hal ini media You Tube tidak dapat menggantikan tradisi atau budaya seperti mitoni, empat bulanan, dan lain sebagainya Karena di dalamnya mengandung unsur gotong royong antar masyarakat, yang tidak dapat digantikan dengan media online. Kata Kunci: Al-Qur’an, Digital, Ibu Hamil, Sakralitas, Tradisi.


Author(s):  
Esthika Ariany Maisa ◽  
Yulastri Arif ◽  
Wawan Wahyudi

Purpose: To explore the nurses’ positive deviance behaviors as an effort to provide solutions in preventing and controlling infections in the hospital. Method: This is a qualitative research using grounded theory approach. Thirteen nurses from Dr.M.Djamil hospital were selected based on theoretical sampling in order to develop theory as it appears. Nurses were interviewed from June to September 2014. Interviews were thematically analyzed using techniques of grounded theory to then generate a theory from themes formed. Findings: The modes of positive deviance behavior identified were practicing hand hygiene beyond the standards (bringing handsanitizer from home), applying nursing art in wound care practice, placing patients with MRSA infections at the corner side, giving a red mark on a MRSA patient’s bed for easy identification by nurses, changing clothes and shoes in hospital, reducing hooks on the wall, and cleaning the ward on scheduled days. Conclusion: The study shows that nurses have a number of positive deviance behaviors to prevent infection transmission in the wards. It is sugested that the hospital management and nursing managers adopt some of the uncommon solution highlighted by the nurses to solve the HAIs problems in the hospital.


2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (8) ◽  
pp. 266-274
Author(s):  
Byung- MoonSeol ◽  
Young-Lag KIM

Background/Objectives: This paper investigated and analyzed the phenomena in implementing the curriculum and characteristics of an entrepreneurship education model existing technology-driven agri-food industry. Methods/Statistical analysis: The line-by-line coding method of grounded theory approach by Strauss & Corbin was applied for this study and the collected data was analyzed with the NVIVO 12 program from QSR which is a tool for analyzing quality comparative analysis for better efficiency in open coding.


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