Technology and Families
Digital Dynamics, Entanglements, and Perspectives
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Family life is increasingly shaped by the pervasive presence of digital technologies in everyday interaction. Technology and Families offers a comprehensive analysis of how digitalisation is transforming family dynamics across contemporary societies.
This edited volume brings together original research that examines the deep entanglement of technology and family life across diverse contexts. Chapters explore topics such as how digital tools mediate communication, reshape intimacy, and influence the organisation of work and care within families. The analysis extends to how relationships between parents and children are negotiated through digital environments, how intergenerational dynamics are reconfigured, and how everyday practices are shaped by social media, mobile technologies, and emerging forms of artificial intelligence. The volume also reflects on broader social implications, including changing conceptions of privacy, shifts in emotional expression, and the ways families interpret and respond to wider social change through technological engagement. By situating contemporary developments within longer historical trajectories, the book advances a critical understanding of family life as dynamically intertwined with technological transformation.
Equipping readers with a nuanced framework for understanding how technology is reshaping family life, this is timely reading for scholars and students in sociology, family studies, media and communication, and digital studies.
Chapter 1. Preschool Screen Time in Context: Global Guidelines, Policies, and Early Screen Exposure in the World and Türkiye; Emir Yasin Çitil, Gizem Arıkan, Esra Ercan Bilgiç, and Ayten Bilgin
- Chapter 2. Always Connected, Often Absent: Technoference, Parental Smartphone Use, and the Quality of Parent-Child Relationships; Vinay Kumar and Neema Gupta
- Chapter 3. Parents’ Sharenting Practices and 48-78 Months Children’s Perceptions of Digital Privacy; Aysun Ata-Aktürk and Müzeyyen Büşra Akman
- Chapter 4. "I Don't Like It Very Much When My Mother Shares Things About Me on Social Media": The Practice of Sharenting in Children's Voices; Alexandra Batista
- Chapter 5. The Effectiveness of a Culturally Adapted Digital Behavioral Intervention in Reducing Chronic Stress Responses among Working Women: A Quasi-Experimental Study; Shooroq Maberah and Mohammed Abu Al-Rub
- Chapter 6. Ageism and Age Relations in Digital Infrastructures of Care; Lynn Yu Ling Ng
- Chapter 7. Digital Entanglements in the Family Home: Grief, Care and the Relational Dynamics of Domestic Technology; Sian Cook
- Chapter 8. Connected Yet Lonely: The Paradox of Digital Family Life; Sumant Kumar Tewari and Abhishek Bhushan Singhal
- Chapter 9. The Digitally Mediated Family: Assessing Family Relationships in the Age of Connectivity; Munmun Ghosh
- Chapter 10. Reconceptualizing Family Systems in the Age of 4IR and 5IR: Digital Technology, Embodied Cognition, and Relational Dynamics; Ezra N. S. Lockhart
- Chapter 11. Reframing Digital Health Literacy as a Family-Level Construct; David J. Johnson
- Chapter 12. Digital Family Conflicts: How Technologies Reshape Intimacy, Accountability, and Domestic Tensions, Pathways and Strategies for Reconnection; Tolu Elizabeth Aje
Rosalina Pisco Costa is a family sociologist, Associate Professor and integrated researcher with the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences at the University of Évora, Portugal.
Sampson Lee Blair is a family sociologist and demographer at The State University of New York (Buffalo), USA.