Parental surveillance and parenting styles: Toward a model of familial surveillance climates
Autor: | Avi Marciano |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
Computer Networks and Communications
Communication 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies Developmental psychology 0508 media and communications Reflexivity Media Technology Parenting styles 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Thematic analysis Psychology Location tracking 050107 human factors |
Zdroj: | Mobile Media & Communication. 10:38-56 |
ISSN: | 2050-1587 2050-1579 |
DOI: | 10.1177/20501579211012436 |
Popis: | This study examines parental surveillance of preadolescents based on location-tracking applications installed on their smartphones. Applying reflexive thematic analysis to 24 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with mothers of middle-school children, the study asks how mothers with different parenting styles describe their surveillance ideologies and practices, and what are the sociocultural imageries that motivate their use of location-tracking applications. The findings offer six criteria for evaluating different familial surveillance climates, organizing them in a three-tier model that demonstrates the multidimensionality of digital parental surveillance. Consequently, the study challenges the presumed link between parental surveillance and strict parenting styles (e.g., authoritarian, helicopter). Acknowledging the increasing normalization of digital parental surveillance, the study advances a balanced and pragmatic view of this trend while illuminating participatory methods of implementing what is often considered a suppressive practice. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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