Keep Calm: Youth Navigating Adult Authority across Networked Publics

Campos-Holland, Ana; Dinsmore, Brooke; Pol, Gina; Zevallos, Kevin

doi:10.1108/s1537-466120150000019006

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“…However, we highlight parental (and school) surveillance of social media because these forms are experienced as the most intrusive by youth. Given the power of these adults to act directly upon their lives, this monitoring is more immediate for youth as compared to the distant surveillance of companies and the often‐welcomed influence of peers (Campos‐Holland et al 2015; Marwick and boyd 2014). Notably, youth have collectively migrated from one social media platform to the next (most recently from Facebook to Instagram) in response to the adults in their lives joining that platform (Campos‐Holland et al 2015).…”

Section: Intensification In the Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the power of these adults to act directly upon their lives, this monitoring is more immediate for youth as compared to the distant surveillance of companies and the often‐welcomed influence of peers (Campos‐Holland et al 2015; Marwick and boyd 2014). Notably, youth have collectively migrated from one social media platform to the next (most recently from Facebook to Instagram) in response to the adults in their lives joining that platform (Campos‐Holland et al 2015). But it is also important to note that parental or school monitoring—although intrusive—is not necessarily effective as teens are often able to “hide in plain sight” from adults who are outsiders in youth peer cultures (boyd 2007).…”

Section: Intensification In the Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Paradox of Constrained Well‐being: Childhood Autonomy, Surveillance and Inequality*

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Pugh

2021

Sociological Forum

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With some exceptions, children’s lives in the United States and other developed nations have become more intensely surveilled over the last 30 years, thanks to the intensification of parenting, the spread of surveillance technology in schools, and increased restrictions upon children’s use of public space. Yet childhood scholars argue that children’s autonomy and self‐efficacy are important not just as basic human rights, but also because they help children improve coping skills, learn better, and, and become trusting and trustworthy. Existing scholarship, then, might predict that trends of heightened surveillance negatively impact children’s well‐being. Instead, contemporary children are doing better, as measures of abuse and assault, physical health, educational achievement, and other outcomes attest. Given childhood studies scholarship, how do we understand children’s decreasing autonomy and increasing well‐being? We call this puzzle the “paradox of constrained well‐being.” We explore four possible explanations: stratification of childhood, safe bondage/risky freedom, mental‐health‐as‐SOS‐signal, and mental‐health‐as‐harbinger. Presenting evidence, we evaluate the capacity of each to explain the paradox of constrained well‐being. We conclude by suggesting all four have considerable purchase, and that our penchant for easily measurable and reportable metrics blinds us to the costs of constraints on children’s agency, liberty, mental health, and equity.

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Section: Intensification In the Familymentioning

confidence: 99%