Afterword Digital connections and family practices

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures and tables v
4. Notes on contributors vi
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. The family has become a network xv
7. Connecting families? An introduction 1
8. Theoretical and methodological approaches
9. Theoretical perspectives on technology and society: implications for understanding the relationship between ICTs and family life 21
10. Recursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor network theory and strong structuration theory 41
11. Weaving family connections on and offline: the turn to networked individualism 59
12. Oversharing in the time of selfies: an aesthetics of disappearance? 81
13. The application of digital methods in a life course approach to family studies 97
14. Cross-disciplinary research methods to study technology use, family, and life course dynamics: lessons from an action research project on social isolation and loneliness in later life 113
15. From object to instrument: technologies as tools for family relations and family research 133
16. Empirical approaches
17. Use of communication technology to maintain intergenerational contact: toward an understanding of ‘digital solidarity’ 159
18. Careful families and care as ‘kinwork’: an intergenerational study of families and digital media use in Melbourne, Australia 181
19. Floating narratives: transnational families and digital storytelling 201
20. Rescue chains and care talk among immigrants and their left-behind parents 219
21. ‘Wherever you go, wherever you are, I am with you ... connected with my mobile’: the use of mobile text messages for the maintenance of family and romantic relations 237
22. Permeability of work-family borders: effects of information and communication technologies on work-family conflict at the childcare stage in Japan 255
23. Digital connections and family practices 273
24. Index 295