Speaking About Birth: Visible and Silenced Narratives in Online Discussions of Childbirth

Das, Ranjana

doi:10.1177/2056305117735753

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“…As these threads focus on social media, we can get a sense of how their use can be a new source of parental worries, along with more "traditional" ones that have already been studied on parenting forums, such as pregnancy, diet, health, upbringing etc. (see Cappellini & Yen, 2016;Das, 2017;Hookway et al, 2017). SMDs, though, are brand new.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The choice of using a parenting forum as a site of research was motivated by three main assumptions. First, the literature supports that these platforms can be good sources of data collection with respect to several topics, like pregnancy (Cappellini & Yen, 2016), birth (Das, 2017), or health choices (Hookway, Elmer, & Frandsen, 2017). Second, online discussion sites have been shown to generate good quality natural data (Smith, Bulbul, & Jones, 2017).…”

Section: Studying Social Media Dilemmas Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Frames are not given once and for all but are, in turn, re-organized and re-constructed through social interaction (Bercelli, 1999). Online interpersonal communication fosters the production of mediated frameworks of reference (Das, 2017) as lenses through which looking at and (re)interpreting the social world and one's personal life. Through the mesolevel of interaction (see Formenti, 2012) taking place on parenting forums, people can communally make sense of and interpret their experiences, while constructing and attaching meaning to them.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Informed by these scholars and the abovementioned guidelines, we only studied already existing discussions, publicly accessible (i. e. no needing registration / password / authorization to be retrieved), asynchronous, and archived as no longer active at the time of collection. As other researchers make the case for (see Das, 2017;Whiteman, 2012) this made getting in touch with posters virtually impracticable.…”

Section: Ethical Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“My kid, my rule”: Governing children’s digital footprints as a source of dialectical tensions between mothers and daughters-in-law

Cino

Vandini

2020

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This paper reports on findings from an exploratory study on social media dilemmas (SMDs) mothers experience about their children’s social media presence when their mothers-in-law share about their offspring online, violating their boundaries expectations. The work is theoretically informed by systems theory and communication privacy management theory. A parenting forum was researched to investigate how mothers themselves frame these dilemmatic situations through a thematic analysis of a sample of 1224 posts from 38 discussion threads focusing on these issues. This work shows the disorienting nature of SMDs leading mothers to seek support through online communication. Findings from this study further suggest that sharing about minors on social media can cause dialectical tensions between interacting systems (i. e. the nuclear and the extended family), with mothers claiming and expecting first-level agency in managing their children’s digital footprints to foster systemic differentiation in the digital home.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Studying Social Media Dilemmas Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Data Sampling and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ethical Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“My kid, my rule”: Governing children’s digital footprints as a source of dialectical tensions between mothers and daughters-in-law

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Vandini

2020

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“…It focuses on the verbal quality of the data. For example, Das (2017) analyses 1930 posts in 12 discussions threads on the Mumsnet website. She found three themes arising from the digital data set: "the multi-pronged functions of writing birth narratives, the discursive and perceived silencing of difficult stories, and the overt individualization and self-management evident in women's accounts" (p.1).…”

Section: Social Media Data As Text and Discoursementioning

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Qualitative Analysis of Social Media Data

Beneito-Montagut¹

2020

SAGE Research Methods Foundations

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Society has become thoroughly mediatised. Every aspect and part of society from the economy, politics and education to civil society and everyday social relations is immersed by media. Today we have the internet, smart phones, apps, social network services, blogs, email, and other social media platforms. Social media has brought changes to the way we inform, communicate with others, learn, play and socialize. Most people are quite well connected and communicate with others and while being connected they obtain, organize, produce and share information on a regular basis. These common routinely activities generate a large amount of information and knowledge of different forms, much of it created by 'ordinary people'. This information is generally referred as digital social data which is potentially of great interest to social scientists (Sloan and Quan-Haase, 2017). From the emergence of the internet, both quantitative and qualitative research have been interested in analysing digital data for its endeavour. As social media have enlarged the size and variety of the traces of social actors' actions and expressions, the analytical possibilities available for social science researchers have been reshaped too. This has brought to the fore the necessity of methodological innovations and interdisciplinary collaboration for the study of social media data. Conversely, this digital turn has generated lively debates about its potential to know the contemporary social world. While at the beginning of internet research scholars tended to study social life online as a separated from 'real life', researchers disputed this and argued the need for online social life to be viewed as an integral part of social life (Beneito-Montagut, 2011). Nevertheless, linking social media data to what is going on offline is still one of the challenges of digital social science research.Most of the methodological innovations have been made regarding the analysis of big data and technological tools to make sense of it, but not much has been said about how to qualitatively analyse social media data. This chapter deals with the analysis of social media data and offers a framework which considers the limits and challenges that this kind of data poses. Rather than offering a prescriptive method, it attempts to document the reflective process to incorporate social media data to qualitative research projects considering how we extract meaning from them. So, it is presented as a toolkit to start thinking about the analytical process instead of a universally applicable model. The aim is to link the analysis of social media data to well-stablished research paradigms, instead of reinventing them. Modes and media. Multimodality and multimedialityThe first section brings some definitions to set together the differences and common grounds of two terms: multimodal and multimedia. We will also put these two concepts in relation to the digital context and explain the reasons why we use multimedia. Yet suggesting multimodal research as a useful analytical framework...

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Hodkinson

Das

2021

New Fathers, Mental Health and Digital Communication

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Speaking About Birth: Visible and Silenced Narratives in Online Discussions of Childbirth

Cited by 29 publications

References 54 publications

“My kid, my rule”: Governing children’s digital footprints as a source of dialectical tensions between mothers and daughters-in-law

“My kid, my rule”: Governing children’s digital footprints as a source of dialectical tensions between mothers and daughters-in-law

Qualitative Analysis of Social Media Data

Repertoires of Illegitimacy

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