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Parents talking algorithms : navigating datafication and family life in digital societies / Ranjana Das.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Das, Ranjana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parenting--Social aspects.
- Parenting.
- Internet and families.
- Algorithms--Social aspects.
- Algorithms.
- Digital media--Social aspects.
- Digital media.
- Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 188 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- This book explores the intersection of parenthood and the digital age, where algorithms shape daily decisions - from search engines to social media. Looking beyond tech skills and media panics, it's an essential read for social scientists, policy makers, and anyone seeking to understand the complexities of parenting in a datafied society.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Testimonials
- Parents Talking Algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introducing Parents Talking Algorithms
- Akemi
- Jackson
- Relationships of mutuality?
- Algorithms everywhere
- Indescribable algorithms?
- Meet the parents
- Chapter outline
- 2 Quests
- Relational understandings of search
- Managing search
- The work of search
- Conclusions
- 3 Curation
- Clustering
- Care
- Absences
- Dynamic arrangements
- 4 Understandings
- Myriad understandings
- Misunderstandings
- Parking for later
- Transactional understandings
- Taking action
- 5 News
- A gateway site
- Practices at the gateway
- 6 Literacies
- Parents' algorithm awareness
- Parents' technical competencies
- Parents' critical capacities
- Parents championing best interests
- Aware in principle, alert in practice, active shapers
- 7 Tomorrows
- Individual preparations, muted expectations
- Seen and unseen children
- The 'additional comments box'
- Speaking about algorithmic todays and tomorrows
- 8 Attending to Parents Talking Algorithms
- A summary
- Recommendations: Nandini's 'additional comments box'
- The ephemerality of agency
- Boundaries and next steps
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Apr 2025).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781529241020
- 1529241022
- 9781529241037
- 1529241030
- 9781529241044
- 1529241049
- OCLC:
- 1472956251
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