Parenting in a digital world
Research seminar. Open to anyone, no registration needed.
October 3rd 2016 at 9:00-16:30.Emil Holms Kanal, University of Copenhagen (KUA), room 27.0.47.
9.15 – 9.30
Welcome by Christa Lykke Christensen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen.
9.30 – 10.15
Lynn Schofield Clark, Professor, University of Denver
Children, Parenting, and Publics: Young People, Social Media, and Connective Journalism.
10.15 – 11
Jackie Marsh, Professor, University of Sheffield
Russian dolls and three forms of capital: An ecological and sociological perspective on parents' engagement with young children's tablet use.
11.15 - 12
Discussion
12 - 13
Lunch
13 - 13.50
Maja Sonne Damkjær, PhD student, Aarhus University
The role of digital media among first-time parents: Practices, meanings, and negotiations.
Amanda Appel, Stud.mag., University of Copenhagen
Family togetherness: Parental mediation practices in the home environment of young children.
13.50 - 14.10
Break
14.10 - 15.00
Kjetil Sandvik, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
Klaus Thestrup, Associate Professor, Aarhus University
Playful parents and experimenting children.
Gitte Stald, Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen
Smart (phone) families.
15.00 - 15.30
Coffee break
15.30 -16.20
Lene Heiselberg, PhD, and Tina Skov Gretlund,both Senior Audience Researchers at DR Audience Research
Parent’s perspective on children’s media use.
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University
Expertise in digital parenting.
16.20-16.30
Closing remarks.
18.00
Optional dinner at your own expense at Restaurant Almanak (if interested, please register through this link: http://doodle.com/poll/u8h8k2xifn9f46kt
Please RSVP by September 29.
About the two keynotes and their presentations:
Lynn Schofield Clark is Professor and Chair, Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies and Director, Estlow International Center for Journalism & New Media, University of Denver:
This presentation is rooted in reflections upon ethnographic research that was foundational for two recent book projects. The first book, The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age, explored the ways that families with preteens and teenagers grapple with mobile and digital media, finding that the economic inequality characterizing the current U.S. shapes the differential ways in which parents and their children have approached these technologies in their lives together. The second book, Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism, explores how U.S. teens consume, share, insert themselves into, and make news via social media. It followed up on The Parent App by observing that parental (and other adult) media practices shape teen practices with news in some ways, and yet one of the big takeaways from that project was the significance of peer relations in shaping how stories of news are shared and made meaningful. This leads to a new question to be explored in a research project that is currently taking shape: what role are parents and other adults playing in shaping how young people think about and become a part of publics in the social media environment?
Jackie Marsh is Professor, School of Education, University of Sheffield:
This presentation will consider how UK parents of young children (aged 0-5) manage and engage with their children's use of tablets. The data are drawn from an ESRC-funded study of children's use of tablet apps, in which 2000 UK parents completed an online survey, and six ethnographic case studies of families with children aged under five were undertaken. The analysis is informed by Bronfenbrenner's theory of human development, and considers parents' engagement in children's tablet use in relation to four ecological systems (the micro-, meso-, exo- and macro- systems) that operate ‘as a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls’ (Bronfenbrenner 1979:3). The presentation will also trace how the cultural, economic and social capital (Bourdieu, 1987) of the families shaped the dynamics between the ‘nested structures’ and thus impacted upon the way in which parents engaged with their children’s use of tablets. The implications for work with parents on children’s uses of technology will be considered.