Navigating children’s screen-time at home: Narratives of childing and parenting within the familial generational structure
Navigating children’s screen-time at home: Narratives of childing and parenting within the familial generational structure
This article draws upon my qualitative study with 8–12-year-old British Indian children and their professional middle-class parents, to demonstrate the ways in which parental mediation of children’s digital leisure play out within the home. Using the relational lens of ‘generational order’, I identify the ways in which children ‘navigate’ their way around restrictive parental mediation of digital technologies just as parents ‘navigate’ multiple moral discourses emerging from media and policy circles imploring them to curb children’s screen-time. Understanding these ‘navigation’ strategies around children’s digital media use at home throws fresh light on parent–child relations, children’s agency and their imbrications with wider generational structures. I conclude by arguing that greater empirical analyses of the relational aspects of parenting and childing are needed for Childhood Studies to fully appreciate the way generational structures inflect the lived geographies of childhood and parenthood in the context of children’s home-based digital leisure.
childing, children’s agency, digital media, generational order, parental mediation, parenting
Mukherjee, Utsa
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Mukherjee, Utsa
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Mukherjee, Utsa
(2020)
Navigating children’s screen-time at home: Narratives of childing and parenting within the familial generational structure.
Children's Geographies.
(doi:10.1080/14733285.2020.1862758).
Abstract
This article draws upon my qualitative study with 8–12-year-old British Indian children and their professional middle-class parents, to demonstrate the ways in which parental mediation of children’s digital leisure play out within the home. Using the relational lens of ‘generational order’, I identify the ways in which children ‘navigate’ their way around restrictive parental mediation of digital technologies just as parents ‘navigate’ multiple moral discourses emerging from media and policy circles imploring them to curb children’s screen-time. Understanding these ‘navigation’ strategies around children’s digital media use at home throws fresh light on parent–child relations, children’s agency and their imbrications with wider generational structures. I conclude by arguing that greater empirical analyses of the relational aspects of parenting and childing are needed for Childhood Studies to fully appreciate the way generational structures inflect the lived geographies of childhood and parenthood in the context of children’s home-based digital leisure.
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Accepted/In Press date: 22 November 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 December 2020
Keywords:
childing, children’s agency, digital media, generational order, parental mediation, parenting
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/445526
ISSN: 1473-3285
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