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Connecting Families? : Information & Communication Technologies, Generations, and the Life Course /

"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 collectiont akes a life course and generational perspective covering theory, including posthumanism and...

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Otros Autores: Casimiro, Cláudia (Editor ), Neves, Barbara Barbosa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • The family has become a network / Barry Wellman
  • Connecting families? An introduction / Barbara Barbosa Neves and Cláudia Casimiro
  • Theoretical perspectives on technology and society: implications for understanding the relationship between ICTs and family life / Natasha Mauthner and Karolina Kazimierczak
  • Recursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor network theory and strong structuration theory / Geoffrey Mead and Barbara Barbosa Neves
  • Weaving family connections on- and offline: the turn to networked individualism / Anabel Quan-Haase, Hua Wang, Barry Wellman, and Renwen Zhang
  • Oversharing in the time of selfies: an aesthetics of disappearance? / Amanda du Preez
  • The application of digital methods in a life course approach to family studies / Alexia Maddox
  • Cross-disciplinary research methods to study technology use, family, and life course dynamics: lessons from an action research project on social isolation and loneliness in later life / Barbara Barbosa Neves, Ron Baecker, Diana Carvalho, and Alexandra Sanders
  • From object to instrument: technologies as tools for family relations and family research / Cláudia Casimiro and Magda Nico
  • Use of communication technology to maintain intergenerational contact: toward an understanding of 'digital solidarity' / Siyun Peng, Merril Silverstein, J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Woosang Hwang, Sangbo Nam, and Brianna Routh
  • Careful families and care as 'kinwork': an intergenerational study of families and digital media use in Melbourne, Australia / Jolynna Sinanan and Larissa Hjorth
  • Floating narratives: transnational families and digital storytelling / Catalina Arango Patiño
  • Rescue chains and care talk among immigrants and their left-behind parents / Sondra Cuban
  • 'Wherever you go, wherever you are, I am with you...connected with my mobile': the use of mobile text messages for the maintenance of family and romantic relations / Bernadette Kneidlinger-Müller
  • Permeability of work-family boders: effects of information and communication technologies on work-family conflict at the childcare stage in Japan / Yuka Sakamoto
  • Digital connections and family practices / Elizabeth B. Silva.