Digital motherhood

Gibson, Lorna; Hanson, Vicki L.

doi:10.1145/2470654.2470700

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“…On a mundane level, the capacity to capture a virtually unlimited number of family snapshots at, effectively, zero cost and share them in a single step via social media has removed the need to expensively print and distribute photographs [9] to share with close family and friends. Perhaps more profound is the capacity for social media to elicit responses from such close family which can confirm that 'good parenting' is taking place [27,43]. The sharing of digital snapshots can also be used to gain support from weaker-tie networks, in addition to immediate friends and family [52].…”

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Has Instagram Fundamentally Altered the 'Family Snapshot'?

Moignan

Lawson

Rowland

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper considers how parents use the social media platform Instagram to facilitate the capture, curation and sharing of 'family snapshots'. Our work draws upon established cross-disciplinary literature relating to film photography and the composition of family albums in order to establish whether social media has changed the way parents visually present their families. We conducted a qualitative visual analysis of a sample of 4,000 photographs collected from Instagram using hashtags relating to children and parenting. We show that the style and composition of snapshots featuring children remains fundamentally unchanged and continues to be dominated by rather bland and idealised images of the happy family and the cute child. In addition, we find that the frequent taking and sharing of photographs via Instagram has inevitably resulted in a more mundane visual catalogue of daily life. We note a tension in the desire to use social media as a means to evidence good parenting, while trying to effectively manage the social identity of the child and finally, we note the reluctance of parents to use their own snapshots to portray family tension or disharmony, but their willingness to use externally generated content for this purpose.

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Has Instagram Fundamentally Altered the 'Family Snapshot'?

Moignan

Lawson

Rowland

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Alongside a multi-generational perspective that considers the long-term sustainability of technology [18], it is argued there is great potential in studying key transition periods in a lifespan to critically consider our changing digital behaviors and values held in Internet-enabled technologies [2]. Therefore, HCI research has recently considered key events in technology users' lives, such as 'coming of age' [45,61], marriage [36], becoming a parent [22], relationship break-ups [57], divorce [40], and death and memorialization [37].…”

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Transitions in Digital Personhood

Durrant

Kirk

Pisanty

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We present findings from a qualitative study about how Internet use supports self-functioning following the life transition of retirement from work. This study recruited six recent retirees and included the deployment of OnLines, a design research artifact that logged and visualized key online services used by participants at home over four-weeks. The deployment was supported by pre-and post-deployment interviews. OnLines prompted participants' reflection on their patterns of Internet use. Position Exchange Theory was used to understand retirees' sense making from a lifespan perspective, informing the design of supportive online services. This paper delivers a three-fold contribution to the field of human-computer interaction, advancing a lifespanoriented approach by conceptualizing the self as a dialogical phenomenon that develops over time, advancing the ageing discourse by reporting on retirees' complex identities in the context of their life histories, and advancing discourse on research through design by developing OnLines to foster participant-researcher reflection informed by Self Psychology.

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“…For example, a study found that white postnatal women in the UK are less at risk of developing postnatal depression and personality dysfunction when living in areas with a higher density of their own ethnic group (Du Preez et al 2016). Gibson and Hanson (2013) observe that UK mothers consider Facebook an important aspect of their motherhood because it allows them to be socially connected (see also Kaufmann, Buckner, and Ledbetter 2017). A randomised controlled trial suggested that support of lay workers improves maternal and child outcomes in disadvantaged families (Kenyon et al 2016).…”

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The moral economy of early intervention

Maggio¹

2020

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In November 2015, protests erupted in Oxford in response to the decision of the Oxfordshire County Council to cut, among other things, forty-four Children’s Centres and seven Early Intervention Hubs. The debate about whether these centres could be considered as disposable or not did not get to an agreement. I argue that the main cause of this outcome is that the opposing arguments were based on moral positions that were not only incompatible but fundamentally incommensurable. Those in favour of reducing deficit spending argue that cuts to social services (including family and children services) are unavoidable. Parents, however, refuse to accept austerity measures that will undermine the rights of their children to access services that will improve their chances in life. Neither position is based on incontrovertible evidence. On the one hand, the decision to cut a given service always involves the arbitrary evaluation of that service against other services that will not be cut. On the other, the demand to fund those services is based on the hope that early intervention initiatives will benefit children, even if the evidence that early intervention works is unconclusive or thin. On the basis of a thematic analysis of twenty-seven stories written by Oxfordshire parents, I interpret this conflict using the notion of moral economy, and argue that such an approach allows an appreciation of the link between health economics, perinatal mental health, the morality of parenting, and the early intervention discourse.

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Digital motherhood

Cited by 151 publications

References 18 publications

Has Instagram Fundamentally Altered the 'Family Snapshot'?

Has Instagram Fundamentally Altered the 'Family Snapshot'?

Transitions in Digital Personhood

The moral economy of early intervention

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