‘Doing’ and ‘Displaying’ Family in Polymediatic Environments: Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Teenagers’ Digital Practices

Merla, Laura; Papanikolaou, Kristina

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-70803-0_6

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“…On the other hand, our study broadens the empirical attention on young people from peer interactions to family relationships. The research goals expand the concept of 'displaying family' (Finch, 2007) on TikTok where families simultaneously maintain feelings of belonging to each other, and a space where they can be recognized by others as family members (Merla & Papanikolaou, 2021). The ISF (Bengtson & Roberts, 1991) endorses the goal of our study as it equally highlights the efforts of grandparents and grandchildren to maintain their relationship.…”

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Displaying intergenerational solidarity on TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the implications in the grandparent-grandchild relationship

Nouwen

Duflos

2022

Journal of Family Studies

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The habits of families are affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, with limitations to socialization or visits. Grandparents and grandchildren use social media to sustain interpersonal relationships, as well as display intergenerational solidarity to others. This paper presents a qualitative content analysis of the display of different dimensions of intergenerational solidarity between grandparents and grandchildren during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, on TikTok. The analysis extends the understanding of intergenerational solidarity between grandparents and grandchildren on TikTok, by highlighting which characteristics or activities they find important to display to other users of the platform. The results suggest that grandparents and grandchildren value qualities of physical touch and family celebrations (i.e., affectual solidarity), and big life events (i.e., normative solidarity). Moreover, grandparents and grandchildren refrain from consensual solidarity on TikTok, but other categories of intergenerational solidarity provide clues to differences in the public display of their respective roles.

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Section: Displaying Family On Tiktokmentioning

confidence: 84%

Displaying intergenerational solidarity on TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the implications in the grandparent-grandchild relationship

Nouwen

Duflos

2022

Journal of Family Studies

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Chinese children’s perspectives of long-distance familyhood via WeChat

Han

2024

Journal of Children and Media

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Being family via WeChat: Children's interpretation of long‐distance family relationships

Han

2024

Children & Society

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This study explores how left‐behind children in rural China maintain long‐distance family relationships through WeChat, highlighting the significant role of social media during family separation. It underscores the importance of considering children's voices in understanding family relationships in the digital age. Drawing on online workshops and interviews with 41 participants, the research examines how Chinese left‐behind children use WeChat to facilitate parental engagement and manage their emotions. It also investigates the challenges children face in online communication and their perspectives on grandparental involvement. This article argues that children's agency is situated within structural conditions shaped by a confluence of factors, including technological affordances, unique familial contexts, and socio‐economic inequalities. This situatedness fosters creativity, compromises, and adaptations in ‘being family’ at a distance.

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‘Doing’ and ‘Displaying’ Family in Polymediatic Environments: Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Teenagers’ Digital Practices

Cited by 5 publications

References 53 publications

Displaying intergenerational solidarity on TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the implications in the grandparent-grandchild relationship

Displaying intergenerational solidarity on TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the implications in the grandparent-grandchild relationship

Chinese children’s perspectives of long-distance familyhood via WeChat

Being family via WeChat: Children's interpretation of long‐distance family relationships

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