The parent app : understanding families in the digital age

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Lynn Schofield, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet and families--Social aspects.

Internet and families.

Internet.

Parent and child.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 299 p.)

Other Title:

parent app

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

New technologies offer new ways for families to connect, access ideas and entertainment, and manage the risks faced by children and teens, but they also bring more responsibilities, choices and challenges. 'The Parent App' explores these differences and provides the kind of guidance backed by thorough research that parents today desperately need.

Contents:

Risk, digital media, and parenting in a digital age

Cyberbullying girls, helicopter moms, and internet predators

Strict parents, gamer high school dropouts, and shunned overachievers

Identity 2.0 : young people and digital and mobile media

Less advantaged teens, ethnicity, and digital and mobile media : respect, restriction, and reversal

Communication in families : expressive empowerment and respectful connectedness

How parents are mediating the media in middle class and in less advantaged homes

Media rich and time poor : the emotion work of parenting in the digital age

Parenting in a digital age : the mediatization of family life and the need to act.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-998680-0