[Commlist] New Book: Early Motherhood in Digital Societies

Monograph /Early Motherhood in Digital Societies
Ranjana Das
published by Routledge

The book//offers a nuanced understanding of what the digital turn has 
meant for new mothers in an intense and critical period before and after 
they have a baby, often called the ‘perinatal’ period. */Early 
Motherhood in Digital Societies: Ideals, Anxieties and Ties of the  
Perinatal,/*//has Chapter 1 and a Foreword by Shani Orgad available for 
free online <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315167725> and the 
hardback and e-book versions are available for purchase on the Routledge 
website 
<https://www.routledge.com/Early-Motherhood-in-Digital-Societies-Ideals-Anxieties-and-Ties-of-the/Das/p/book/9781138052574>. 


The book looks at an array of digital communication and content by 
drawing on an extensive research project involving in-depth qualitative 
data from interviews with new mothers in the United Kingdom and online 
case studies. These stories are analysed to investigate the complexity 
of emotions around birth, the diversity of birth experiences and the 
myriad ways in which television, the press and social media impede and 
empower women giving birth. The book asks: what does the use of 
technology mean in the perinatal context and what implications might it 
have for maternal well-being? It argues for a balanced and 
context-sensitive approach to the digital for maternal well-being in the 
critical perinatal period.

By doing this, the book fills a gap in media studies, addressing itself 
to gaps within audience analysis, health communication and parenting. 
Contents include -

/Foreword/: Shani Orgad

Chapter 1: Mediated mists of the early days

Chapter 2: The Perinatal Ideal

Chapter 3: The /Good/ Birth

Chapter 4: The two sides of support rhetoric

Chapter 5: Short-lived ties, lasting implications

Chapter 6: Perinatal Anxiety and its Mediated Social Shaping

Chapter 7: Perinatality and the digital: Cautious-optimism


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