Connected Parenting

Digital Discourse and Diverse Family Practices

Dr Jai Mackenzie (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-26253-9 (ISBN)

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Changing practices and perceptions of parenthood and family life have long been the subject of intense public, political and academic attention. Recent years have seen growing interest in the role digital media and technologies can play in these shifts, yet this topic has been under-explored from a discourse analytical perspective. In response, this book’s investigation of everyday parenting, family practices and digital media offers a new and innovative exploration of the relationship between parenting, family practices, and digitally mediated connection. This investigation is based on extensive digital and interview data from research with nine UK-based single and/or lesbian, gay or bisexual parents who brought children into their lives in non-traditional ways, for example through donor conception, surrogacy or adoption. Through a novel approach that combines constructivist grounded theory with mediated discourse analysis, this book examines connected family lives and practices in a way that transcends the limiting social, biological and legal structures that still dominate concepts of family in contemporary society.

Jai Mackenzie is a Senior Lecturer at Newman University, Birmingham, UK. Her primary research expertise lies in explorations of language, gender, sexuality and parenthood, especially in new media contexts. She is the author of Language, Gender and Parenthood Online: Negotiating Motherhood in Mumsnet Talk (2019).

List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
1. Grounded Theory and Mediated Discourse Analysis
2. The Marginalised Families Online Study
3. Introducing Collective Connection
4. Elaborating Collective Connection
5. Introducing Epistemic Connection
6. Elaborating Epistemic Connection
7. Introducing Affective Connection
8. Elaborating Affective Connection
9. The Theoretical, Methodological and Practical Implications of Connected Parenting
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.03.2023
Zusatzinfo	28 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-26253-6 / 1350262536
ISBN-13	978-1-350-26253-9 / 9781350262539
Zustand	Neuware