Does sharing bring happiness? Understanding the sharenting phenomenon

Aydoğdu, Fuat; Güngör, Beyza Şanal; Öz, Türkan Ayhan

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107122

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“…In contrast, other scholars have highlighted more desirable outcomes of sharenting, such as information-archiving (Verswijvel et al, 2019) and the possibility to receive social support as a new parent (Archer & Kao, 2018;Barkhuus et al, 2017;Lazard et al, 2019). Most of the previous work has been focusing on sharenting within a Western context, yet some recent work has begun to examine sharenting practices within additional demographics, such as among Middle Eastern (Esfandiari & Yao, 2023) and Turkish (Aydoğdu et al, 2023) parents. Previous work has shown that sharenting is usually motivated by positive interests (Ferrara et al, 2023) and have proven to bring positive outcomes for parents engaging in sharenting.…”

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Navigating Parenthood Online: Understanding the Complex Dynamics of Sharenting Practices

Jungselius,

Fröjelin,

Johansson

2024

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In this paper, we focus on the increasingly central visual aspects of documenting and sharing family life as we examine how parents reflect upon “sharenting”, i.e. sharing representations of family life in social media. The aim of this paper is to contribute with an empirically supported understanding of activities involved in the social practice of sharenting. We ask: “What activities constitute the practice of sharenting and how do parents perceive, experience, and manage sharenting?” and focus on how parents engage in sharenting and how they experience and manage questions and concerns that occur as they share, and do not share, pictures of their children in social media. We draw upon a thematic analysis of twelve semi-structured in-depth interviews with parents of at least one child in the age of 1-10. Based on our data and in relation to previous research we unpack ambiguous and multifaceted reasonings on sharenting as a complex social media practice. Through rich descriptions and empirical detail, we provide knowledge on key activities involved in sharenting, and present findings following three themes: unforeseeable consequences of sharenting, social media dilemmas of sharenting and strategies for managing sharenting. Lastly, we show how these activities represent expressions of agreed upon idioms of the practice of sharenting and discuss the interplay between contemporary social photography, ICT, and family life. Increased access to, and use of ICT such as smartphones with built-in advanced cameras, leads us to believe that the practice of visually representing family life in a contemporary context comes with a new set of challenges for parents. As the social media landscape is constantly evolving, social media practices, such as sharenting, must be continuously studied to ensure the understanding needed to inform future design, policy, and regulation. This paper present illustrative examples of how this community adopt, make, and negotiate use of social media and the possibilities these ICTs afford.

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Navigating Parenthood Online: Understanding the Complex Dynamics of Sharenting Practices

Jungselius,

Fröjelin,

Johansson

2024

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Social and Legal Risks of Sharenting when Forming a Child’s Digital Identity in Social Networks

Aranda Serna

2024

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Objective: to determine the legal consequences of sharenting as an activity that threatens the fundamental rights of minors, putting their privacy at risk.Methods: the study is based primarily on the analysis of European and American experience of legislative regulation, which is presented in a comparative-legal aspect, using doctrinal approaches and concepts reflected in scientific publications on the topic. This contributed, among other things, to the critical understanding of the identified risks and helped to describe the existing legal approaches and formulate proposals aimed at protecting the minors’ privacy in social networks.Results: the impact of social networks on the rights of minors was studied, in terms of their negative influence, possible risks and the spread of social conflicts. The main provisions of the legislation of Spain, France and the USA were analyzed in order to identify the key points regarding the activities of minors in social networks and the Internet, the need for them to express their consent to the publication of personal information. The most common conflicts caused by sharenting were described, as well as possible flexible legislative solutions to disputes concerning family relations and social networking activities. Suggestions were formulated for resolving conflict situations and digital identity issues arising in abusive sharenting.Scientific novelty: the study summarizes various scientific opinions and legal approaches to sharenting as a new phenomenon, which is rapidly developing due to the wide popularity of social networks and Internet activity of children and their parents, generating socio-legal conflicts.Practical significance: the research shows that minors are particularly vulnerable in the information and telecommunication environment. In many cases, excessive disclosure of their personal data occurs not only because of their own actions, but also because of the actions of their family members, usually parents. A comparative legal study of the adopted legislative measures and their interpretations in the legal doctrine allows characterizing the current legal situation with regard to minors in the digital space as fragmentary and proposing legislative approaches and solutions to avoid or minimize possible conflict situations and risks, such as digital harassment or privacy violation, which may arise in the process of further technological development and the spread of sharenting.

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Does sharing bring happiness? Understanding the sharenting phenomenon

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Navigating Parenthood Online: Understanding the Complex Dynamics of Sharenting Practices

Navigating Parenthood Online: Understanding the Complex Dynamics of Sharenting Practices

Social and Legal Risks of Sharenting when Forming a Child’s Digital Identity in Social Networks

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