[ecrea] Call for chapters proposal: Digital Parenting

Nordicom:


  Call for chapters proposal: “Digital parenting"

The book *Digital parenting: the challenges for families in the digital 
age* focuses on the opportunities and challenges of digital media for 
families and changing parenting practices.

Families with young children are usually early and enthusiastic adopters 
of new technologies, which, in turn shape the family’s communication 
practices and media consumption habits. The appropriation of digital 
media into families’ everyday lives is influenced by parenting styles or 
ethics (Clark, 2013). While providing means for remote parenting and 
coordinating family life, new technologies pose new challenges to 
parents, as the practice of sharenting – the oversharing of children’s 
pictures and personal information (see Blum-Ross & Livingstone, 2017) - 
and the increasing reliance on the internet and parenting apps for 
(health) advice, well exemplify.

The pervasiveness of the internet and mobile media is giving rise to an 
emergent form of parenting, called “transcendent parenting” (Lim, 2016), 
whereby parents are faced with the challenges of transcending 
online-offline social interactions, the multi-media and multimodal 
environments, and the “timeless time” of parenting. Parents are 
variously equipped to face the increasing complexity of the digital 
world and its social and developmental consequences.

The book will explore how socio-economic differences, parenting cultures 
and parent’s imaginaries, all play a part in shaping the extent to which 
parents can navigate the contemporary internet and guide their 
children’s use. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

  * Sharenting
  * Mummy bloggers
  * Parental imaginaries around the internet/touchscreens
  * Parental mediation of the internet/mobile media (also through
    cross-cultural analysis)
  * Changing parenting cultures
  * The child effect
  * Opportunities and challenges of the digital among rural families
    and/or immigrant families
  * Parenting across generations, including reverse socialisation:
    grandparents, parents and children
  * Digital parenting of children with special needs
  * Digital parenting and health information
The target audience of this book will be composed by students, media 
professionals, practitioners and researchers working in the field of 
education, communication, digital art, children and youth studies, new 
literacy studies and media and information literacy. Contributions 
should take into account the diversity of target audience and facilitate 
flow in reading.

Giovanna Mascheroni, PhD, Senior Lecturer of Sociology of Communication 
and Culture, Department of Sociology, Università Cattolica del Sacro 
Cuore, Milan, Italy, Cristina Ponte, PhD, Associate Professor, 
Department of Communication Sciences, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 
Lisbon, Portugal, and Ana Jorge, PhD, Lecturer, Faculty of Human 
Sciences, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal, are the 
editors.

*Publisher:* Nordicom - Nordic Information Center for Media and 
Communication Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
http://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publikationer

*Articles:*
Between 3000 and 4000 words

*Time Schedule:*
Book Description + Call for chapters:  early May 2017
Submission of abstracts (500 words): 1st June 2017
Notification of acceptance/refusal: 1st July 2017
Full chapter submission: 15 October 2017
Editor’s feedback: early January 2018
Submission of final chapter: 28 February 2018
English Proof Reading: April 2018
Graphic Edition: April 2017
Graphic Design: Jul 2018
Print + pdf: September 2018

Submission Guidelines for Nordicom’s Publications will be sent to 
authors of selected abstracts.

Contact:
Ana Jorge | (anajorge /at/ fch.lisboa.ucp.pt) <mailto:(anajorge /at/ fch.lisboa.ucp.pt)>
Giovanna Mascheroni | (giovanna.mascheroni /at/ unicatt.it) 
<mailto:(giovanna.mascheroni /at/ unicatt.it)>
Cristina Ponte | 
(cristina.ponte /at/ fcsh.unl.pt)<mailto:(cristina.ponte /at/ fcsh.unl.pt)>

For questions regarding Nordicom:
Ingela Wadbring  | (ingela.wadbring /at/ nordicom.gu.se) 
<mailto:(ingela.wadbring /at/ nordicom.gu.se)>

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