Bibliograph

The parent app, understanding families in the digital age, Lynn Schofield Clark

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Label

The parent app, understanding families in the digital age, Lynn Schofield Clark

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-291) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The parent app

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

778636772

Responsibility statement

Lynn Schofield Clark

Sub title

understanding families in the digital age

Summary

The Parent App is more than an advice manual. As Clark admits, technology changes too rapidly for that. Rather, she puts parenting in context, exploring the meaning of media challenges and the consequences of our responses--for our lives as family members and as members of society

Table Of Contents

Risk, media, and parenting in a digital age -- Cyberbullying girls, helicopter moms, and internet predators -- Strict parents, gamer high school dropouts, and shunned overachievers -- Identity 2.0 : young people and digital and mobile media -- Less advantaged teens, ethnicity, and digital and mobile media : respect, restriction, and reversal -- Communication in families : expressive empowerment and respectful connectedness -- How parents are mediating the media in middle class and in less advantaged homes -- Media rich and time poor : the emotion work of parenting in a digital age -- Parenting in a digital age : the mediatization of family life and the need to act

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