Connecting Families?
Information & Communication Technologies, generations, and the life course
Taking a life course and generational perspective, this collection examines topics such as work-life balance, transnational families, digital storytelling and mobile parenting. It offers tools that allow for an informed and critical understanding of ICTs and family dynamics.
Are Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) connecting families? And what does this mean in terms of family routines, relationships, norms, work, intimacy and privacy?
This edited collection takes a life course and generational perspective covering theory, including posthumanism and strong structuration theory, and methodology, including digital and cross-disciplinary methods. It presents a series of case studies on topics such as intergenerational connections, work-life balance, transnational families, digital storytelling and mobile parenting.
It will give students, researchers and practitioners a variety of tools to make sense of how ICTs are used, appropriated and domesticated in family life. These tools allow for an informed and critical understanding of ICTs and family dynamics.
Barbara Barbosa Neves is Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Melbourne and studies digital technologies and social inequalities. She is an elected board member of the Family Research Committee within the International Sociological Association (ISA).
Cláudia Casimiro is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, and researcher at CIEG, undertaking research on family violence, gender, digital technologies and online dating. She is co-convenor of the Families and Life Course network of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS).
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