Connected Parenting: Digital Discourse and Diverse Family Practices (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350262577)

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.

Author: Jai MacKenzie
ISBN-10: 1350262579
ISBN-13: 9781350262577
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2024
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d