Has Mumsnet changed me? SNS influence on identity adaptation and consumption

Phillips, Nichola; Broderick, Amanda J.

doi:10.1080/0267257x.2014.927899

Cited by 27 publications

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“…It has been suggested that the use of these media can lower rates of depression and lift self‐esteem by providing validation for the ‘normalcy’ of mothers' experiences (Hall and Irvine ; Miyata ) and demonstrating that they are not the only mothers going through difficult times (Brady and Guerin ; Gibson and Hanson ; Lupton 2016; Madge and O'Connor ). Participation on these sites can also allow new mothers to be introduced to alternative perspectives and try out different versions of motherhood (Johnson ; Madge and O'Connor ; Pedersen and Lupton 2016; Phillips and Broderick ).…”

Section: Websites and Online Discussion Forumsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parenting and Digital Media: From the Early Web to Contemporary Digital Society

Lupton

Pedersen²,

Thomas³

2016

Sociology Compass

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Parents have accessed websites, online discussion forums and blogs for advice, information and support since the early days of the World Wide Web. In this article, we review the literature in sociology and related social research addressing the ways in which digital media have been used for parenting‐related purposes. We begin with the longer‐established media of parenting websites, online discussion forums, blogs, email, mobile phones and message and video services and then move on to the newer technologies of social media and apps. This is followed by a section on data privacy and security issues. The concluding section summarises some major issues arising from the review and points to directions for further research.

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Section: Websites and Online Discussion Forumsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parenting and Digital Media: From the Early Web to Contemporary Digital Society

Lupton

Pedersen²,

Thomas³

2016

Sociology Compass

161

107

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“…The act of taking an ethnographic approach to using blogs, and other online sources, as data is known as “netnography” (Kozinets, ). The most popular approach to netnography is a passive form in which the researcher takes on the role of observer or reader – known in social media communities as “lurking” (Chan, ; Mackenzie, ; Philips & Broderick, ). Although researchers can remain entirely anonymous and unnoticed, the process also allows contributors to remain anonymous (Hookway, ), to the extent that there is arguably no practical reason for blog writers to be aware of the use of their data in research.…”

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“…There exist a number of dormant blogs on the web, raising a question over whether these mothers should be protected from wider publication and scrutiny, as they might not reasonably foresee their blog holding any interest to outside parties. Nevertheless, these blogs have been written and publicly published and one can assume that at least at some point these women did hope for a public readership or recognise the possibility of such (Gatson, ; Philips & Broderick, ).…”

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Informed consent and secondary data: Reflections on the use of mothers’ blogs in social media research

Benzon

2018

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This paper seeks to extend debate on the use of blogs as qualitative data, specifically focusing on the issue of consent in research that uses publicly available but personal content. Typically the argument has been made for the need to protect individual writers and engage with these documents in a considered manner that recognises the inherent vulnerability of amateur authors. This paper will argue that a framing of these writers that foregrounds their potential vulnerability, naivety and even ignorance is in fact highly paternalistic, and therefore counter to an ethical approach to research. In seeking to protect authors from harm, we deny their agency and diminish the act of online publication. Further, this approach, prevalent in academia, is at odds with the legal position, and arguably, the weight of social understanding. A reframing of amateur online authors as informed agents not only increases the accessibility of these data to researchers and subsequently policy makers, but also alludes to a need to credit the contribution of authors without the need to seek permission. Ultimately, this paper argues for a presumption of accountability, unless otherwise proven, and an approach to the use of self-published online material that mirrors the use of other sorts of secondary data with perceived "professional" authors, such as magazine articles, newspaper columns or organisational literature. ENDNOTES 1 Frequently following (reading) online discussions occurring within a particular online space, without contributing. 2 The craft of developing a professional persona online.

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“…People feel they can be honest about parenting difficulties on such sites, and yet they can also be very harshly judged -i.e. both the initial postings and the responses can be highly negative [60]. Honesty here becomes a social norm, but is supported by the communication being primarily text-based and an interesting issue for future research concerns the extent to which photographic sharing might reduce social authenticity.…”

Section: The Perfect Familymentioning

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Has Instagram Fundamentally Altered the 'Family Snapshot'?

Moignan

Lawson

Rowland

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper considers how parents use the social media platform Instagram to facilitate the capture, curation and sharing of 'family snapshots'. Our work draws upon established cross-disciplinary literature relating to film photography and the composition of family albums in order to establish whether social media has changed the way parents visually present their families. We conducted a qualitative visual analysis of a sample of 4,000 photographs collected from Instagram using hashtags relating to children and parenting. We show that the style and composition of snapshots featuring children remains fundamentally unchanged and continues to be dominated by rather bland and idealised images of the happy family and the cute child. In addition, we find that the frequent taking and sharing of photographs via Instagram has inevitably resulted in a more mundane visual catalogue of daily life. We note a tension in the desire to use social media as a means to evidence good parenting, while trying to effectively manage the social identity of the child and finally, we note the reluctance of parents to use their own snapshots to portray family tension or disharmony, but their willingness to use externally generated content for this purpose.

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Has Mumsnet changed me? SNS influence on identity adaptation and consumption

Cited by 27 publications

References 35 publications

Parenting and Digital Media: From the Early Web to Contemporary Digital Society

Parenting and Digital Media: From the Early Web to Contemporary Digital Society

Informed consent and secondary data: Reflections on the use of mothers’ blogs in social media research

Has Instagram Fundamentally Altered the 'Family Snapshot'?

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