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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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Autres auteurs: Casimiro, Cláudia (Éditeur intellectuel), Neves, Barbara Barbosa (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2018.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:"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 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 studients, 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 ICTs and family dynamics"--Back cover image.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (324 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781447339953