Bristol University Press
1 Introducing Parents Talking Algorithms
Abstract
This introductory chapter considers the relationships of mutuality between parents and algorithms in in digital societies. It draws attention both to the inequalities of power between parents and platforms, as well as parents’ agency in navigating everyday life and parenting, as mediated increasingly by algorithms. The chapter draws upon recent advances within user-centric algorithm studies as part of broader conversations with communications, sociology, critical data studies, and related fields. It introduces the methodological framework of the project as well as the 30 parents who took part in it. The introduction provides an overview of all chapters in the book, encompassing parents’ negotiations of search algorithms, their understandings of algorithms in their children’s lives, algorithms involved in sharing and sharenting, news recommendation algorithms, parents’ algorithm literacies, and parents’ hopes and fears about their children’s algorithmic futures.
Abstract
This introductory chapter considers the relationships of mutuality between parents and algorithms in in digital societies. It draws attention both to the inequalities of power between parents and platforms, as well as parents’ agency in navigating everyday life and parenting, as mediated increasingly by algorithms. The chapter draws upon recent advances within user-centric algorithm studies as part of broader conversations with communications, sociology, critical data studies, and related fields. It introduces the methodological framework of the project as well as the 30 parents who took part in it. The introduction provides an overview of all chapters in the book, encompassing parents’ negotiations of search algorithms, their understandings of algorithms in their children’s lives, algorithms involved in sharing and sharenting, news recommendation algorithms, parents’ algorithm literacies, and parents’ hopes and fears about their children’s algorithmic futures.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- About the Author vi
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introducing Parents Talking Algorithms 1
- Quests 24
- Curation 46
- Understandings 65
- News 83
- Literacies 102
- Tomorrows 126
- Attending to Parents Talking Algorithms 142
- References 159
- Index 181
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- About the Author vi
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introducing Parents Talking Algorithms 1
- Quests 24
- Curation 46
- Understandings 65
- News 83
- Literacies 102
- Tomorrows 126
- Attending to Parents Talking Algorithms 142
- References 159
- Index 181
