The parent app: understanding families in the digital age

Abstract

Foreword: The Parent App and the Parent Trap Part I: Digital media and family communication Ch. 1 Risk, digital media, and parenting in a digital age Ch. 2 Communication in families: expressive empowerment and respectful connectedness Ch. 3 How parents are mediating the media in middle class and in less advantaged homes Ch. 4 Media rich and time poor: The emotion work of parenting in the digital age Part II: Digital media and youth Ch. 5 Identity 2.0: Young people and digital and mobile media Ch. 6 Less advantaged teens, ethnicity, and digital and mobile media: respect, restriction, and reversal Part III: Cautionary tales Ch. 7 Cyberbullying girls, helicopter moms, and Internet predators Ch. 8 Strict parents, gamer high school dropouts, and shunned overachievers Ch. 9 Conclusion: Parenting in a digital age: The mediatization of family life and the parent app Bibliography Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Parents, children, and the media landscape: resources Appendix C: The Family Digital Media contract Acknowledgments