The translucent family

Subtitle:sharenting and privacy negotiations between children and parents

While adolescents are intense users of social network sites (SNS), parents also increasingly use these sites for professional and family-related communication. When using SNS, some parents engage in sharenting, the online sharing of personal information related to their children, and possibly also themselves and their role as parent. Through sharenting, parents also shape their children's digital narrative. However, adolescents’ online self-presentation and parents’ sharenting may conflict and lead to parent-child negotiations. In this chapter, we, therefore, discuss the motives and perceived consequences of sharenting from parents’ perspective. Next, adolescents’ opinions and reactions are analyzed and how they discuss sharenting related decisions with their parents. Finally, avenues for further research related to parent-child negotiations concerning sharenting are suggested.

ISBN:978-1-032-11161-2

Publication year:2023

Keywords:H1 Book chapter

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