The Platformization of the Family

This open access book outlines how the digital platforms that mediate so many aspects of commercial and personal life have begun to transform everyday family existence. It presents theory and research methods to enable students and scholars to investigate the changes that platformization has brought to the routines and interactions of family life including intergenerational communication, interpersonal relationships, forms of care and togetherness. The book emerged from a seminar jointly funded by the Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe project, the Norwegian Research Council and The Australian Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Digital Child.

Situates debates about platformization, mediatization and datafication within a history of change in social organization Pursues the significance of datafication within self-understandings family narrative Summarizes current state of knowledge about the platformization of the family while This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Autorentext

Julian Sefton-Green is Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University, Australia.

Kate Mannell is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child at Deakin University, Australia.

Ola Erstad is Professor of Education at University of Oslo, Norway.

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"How do platforms get into the family home and how do families get platformized? Many books have tried to analyze the political-economic nature of platform power; this book demonstrates how platform power has deeply penetrated the nucleus of social life. It is a real eye-opener as it helps us better understand the intricate dynamics between social media apps and the families they "glue" together."
José van Dijck, Professor of Media Studies and Digital Society, Utrecht University, Netherlands, and author of The Platform Society (Oxford UP).

"This short but empirically and theoretically rich book suggests a much-needed research agenda for the platformisation of the family. In eloquent nuance, it discusses the ways in which macro-structural conditions of contemporary platform society affects the micro-social relations within everyday family life, carefully avoiding alarmist dystopian jargon as well as affirmative techno-optimism. A must-read for anyone interested in relation between the affordances of technology and the social dynamics of the family."
Göran Bolin, Professor, Department of Media & Communication Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden

This open access book outlines how the digital platforms that mediate so many aspects of commercial and personal life have begun to transform everyday family existence. It presents theory and research methods to enable students and scholars to investigate the changes that platformization has brought to the routines and interactions of family life including intergenerational communication, interpersonal relationships, forms of care and togetherness. The book emerged from a seminar jointly funded by the Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe project, the Norwegian Research Council and The Australian Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Digital Child.

Julian Sefton-Green is Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University, Australia.

Kate Mannell is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child at Deakin University, Australia.

Ola Erstad is Professor of Education at University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction .- Chapter 2. The platformization of the family.- Chapter 3. The home as a site of platformization.- Chapter 4. How the family makes itself: The platformization of parenting in early childhood.- Chapter 5. Researching the platformization of the family: Methodological challenges.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Toward further research into the platformization of the family.