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The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age de Lynn Schofield Clark

The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age

Autor Lynn Schofield Clark
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 aug 2014

Bazându-ne pe datele extinse colectate prin proiectul „Teens and the New Media @ Home”, analizăm în The Parent App impactul profund al tehnologiei asupra dinamicii familiale contemporane. Subliniem că lucrarea semnată de Lynn Schofield Clark nu se limitează la sfaturi practice, ci oferă o rigoare sociologică necesară într-o epocă în care adolescenții trimit, în medie, peste 3.000 de mesaje text lunar. Remarcăm o distincție fascinantă pe care autoarea o face între clasele sociale: în timp ce familiile cu venituri mari tind să utilizeze media pentru auto-dezvoltare și performanță academică, familiile cu venituri mai mici pun accent pe respect, conformitate și coeziune familială prin intermediul dispozitivelor mobile.

Comparabil cu Families and Technology de Jennifer Van Hook în rigurozitate, volumul de față este actualizat pentru complexitatea dilemelor etice moderne, precum sexting-ul sau fenomenul „gamer drop-outs”. The Parent App continuă preocuparea autoarei pentru spațiul domestic și social, temă centrală și în lucrarea sa anterioară Media, Home and Family, dar extinde analiza către tensiunile specifice erei smartphone-urilor. Stilul narativ este accesibil, integrând povești reale care ilustrează modul în care părinții navighează între dorința de control și nevoia de a acorda autonomie copiilor într-un mediu digital nesigur. Recomandăm această lectură pentru structura sa care îmbină cercetarea academică de la Oxford University Press cu empatia unui părinte care înțelege direct provocările generației Facebook.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199377107
ISBN-10: 0199377103
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 1 illustration
Dimensiuni: 236 x 155 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte părinților și educatorilor care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele sociologice din spatele utilizării tehnologiei în familie. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care statutul economic influențează educația digitală și primește strategii sensibile pentru a gestiona conflictele legate de ecrane, hărțuirea online și limitele necesare în mediul virtual.

Despre autor

Lynn Schofield Clark este profesor de cercetare la Școala de Jurnalism și Comunicare în Masă a Universității din Colorado și director al proiectului „Teens and the New Media @ Home”. Cu o experiență de peste cincisprezece ani în lucrul cu tinerii și un trecut profesional în producția de televiziune, Clark îmbină expertiza media cu studiile culturale. Opera sa, care include titluri precum From Angels to Aliens și The Routledge Companion to Media and Class, explorează constant intersecția dintre media, religie și practicile sociale ale adolescenților americani.

Descriere

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today struggle with questions previous generations never faced: Is my thirteen-year-old responsible enough for a Facebook page? What will happen if I give my nine year-old a cell phone? In The Parent App, Lynn Schofield Clark provides what families have been sorely lacking: smart, sensitive, and effective strategies for coping with the dilemmas of digital and mobile media in modern life. Clark set about interviewing scores of mothers and fathers, identifying not only their various approaches, but how they differ according to family income. Parents in upper-income families encourage their children to use media to enhance their education and self-development and to avoid use that might distract them from goals of high achievement. Lower income families, in contrast, encourage the use of digital and mobile media in ways that are respectful, compliant toward parents, and family-focused. Each approach has its own benefits and drawbacks, and whatever the parenting style or economic bracket, parents experience anxiety about how to manage new technology. With the understanding of a parent of teens and the rigor of a social scientist, Clark tackles a host of issues, such as family communication, online predators, cyber bullying, sexting, gamer drop-outs, helicopter parenting, technological monitoring, the effectiveness of strict controls, and much more.The Parent App is more than an advice manual. As Clark admits, technology changes too rapidly for that. Rather, she puts parenting in context, exploring the meaning of media challenges and the consequences of our responses-for our lives as family members and as members of society.

Recenzii

Clark provides a detailed, savvy, and scholarly view of how families are handling both the risks and benefits of the digital age.
For any parent out there who is anxious about your child's use of social media: this book is for you. The Parent App provides important insight into the role of technology in contemporary middle class family life, combining the perspectives of parents and youth in order to highlight where there are tensions and confusion. Using a delightful mix of narrative and analysis, Clark invites parents to understand what is unfolding so that they don't feel so trapped.
Drawing from rich and evocative stories of the everyday lives of diverse families, Lynn Schofield Clark provides crucial analysis and insights into how media can be tied to productive connection as well as destructive tension. Anyone with an interest in how families negotiate media use will find this book highly engaging and informative, and parents will find perspectives they can apply right away in their own struggles over media in their homes.
The Parent App is exactly what the best of 'apps' should be: leading us skillfully and swiftly to a field of interest that will help us navigate our lives more fluidly. Insightful about the dilemmas of everyday life that every American family faces in the digital age, Lynn Schofield Clark pays close attention to how people's communication habits take shape in distinct social milieux and across generations. Thoughtful, smart, and original, The Parent App is one of those rare books that genuinely speaks to the academy as well as broader audiences who will be relieved to put down their smartphones and pick up this terrific volume.
In this strongly argued book, Lynn Schofield Clark's thoughtful empirical investigations illuminate the often confused and contradictory responses of society, parents, and scholars towards the fast-changing digital environment in which our children are growing up.
Clark's research and richly textured interviews yield tips that can help parents use social media to cope with work-family stresses in ways compatible with their particular values and needs. This thoughtful book challenges doomsday predictions about the impact of digital technology on individuals but offers disturbing evidence that the current organization and context of social media may exacerbate rather than reduce social differences.
Clark's treatment reflects her dual role as researcher and mother and will be of interest to both scholars and parents.
Clark offers an impressive treatise on mobile technologies and the changing dynamics of family communication in the digital age... Writing in an inviting prose style, Clark effectively manages to seamlessly engage readers from her dual perspective as a parent and scholar, and she convincingly outlines the myriad ways in which digital technologies are redefining how families communicate in their daily lives. Her data are fresh, the presentation is accessible, and the argumentation is sound.
In highly accessible prose, Clark tells a series of engaging stories that illustrate the complex issue of how family members interact with each other as they make their way in a brave new world of mobile and digital media. ...the book contains numerous sections which could easily be excerpted for discussions of both the perceived aptness of the characterization of social class differences and the perceived appropriateness of particular teenage behavior and parental responses.

Notă biografică

Lynn Schofield Clark is Associate Professor in Media, Film, and Journalism Studies, and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver. Her books include Religion, Media, and the Marketplace (Rutgers University Press, 2007); From Angels to Aliens (Oxford University Press, 2005), and with Stewart M. Hoover Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media (Columbia University Press, 2002).