Parenting Cyber-Risk: Opportunities and Challenges Raising Children with Digital Environments
Oxford: Routledge (2024), 181 pp.
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family Series
ISBN 978-1-032-42889-5 (pbk); 978-1-003-36477-1 (ebook)
"Utilizing 70 original interviews from rural and urban area Canadian parents, the book provides an overview of research on “digital parenting” and illuminates the modern parental experience of managing children’s access to internet-connected technologies. The book explores parents’ experiences with cyberbullying and nonconsensual sexting, as well as concerns over breaches of privacy, screen time and internet addiction. It also investigates parents’ views regarding effective and ineffective strategies in mediation of technology and cyber-risk, including new directions such as restorative practices intended as a response to online conflict and harm. While framing their discussions among sociological theories, Adorjan and Ricciardelli also deliberately emphasize the gendered nature of the book’s discourses and encourage critical reflection of various online surveillance technologies, often marketed to mothers, to keep children safe." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction, 1
2 Existing Research, 6
3 COVID-19 Affects on Technoparenting and Children’s Mental Health and Well-being, 23
4 Research Methodology, 41
5 Cyber-Addiction, 53
6 Parenting Mediation of Technology Access and Use, 74
7 Gendered Cyber-Risks, 96
8 School Responses and Restorative Practices, 116
9 Strategies, 139
10 Conclusion, 161
2 Existing Research, 6
3 COVID-19 Affects on Technoparenting and Children’s Mental Health and Well-being, 23
4 Research Methodology, 41
5 Cyber-Addiction, 53
6 Parenting Mediation of Technology Access and Use, 74
7 Gendered Cyber-Risks, 96
8 School Responses and Restorative Practices, 116
9 Strategies, 139
10 Conclusion, 161