Title Participants "Digitaal partnergeweld" "Michel Walrave, Janneke M. Schokkenbroek, Aurélie Gilen, Koen Ponnet, Wim Hardyns" Grandsharenting "Luna Staes, Michel Walrave, Lara Hallam" "Sharenting, the practice whereby parents disclose information about their children on social media, is ubiquitous in our digital society. Even though grandparents take on a considerable role in their grandchildren’s lives and use social media, little is known about grandparents’ sharenting behavior (i.e., grandsharenting). This study explores grandparents’ motives for grandsharenting and privacy management strategies using Communication Privacy Management theory. Based on 17 interviews with grandparents (Facebook users aged between 52 and 83) in Flanders (Belgium), six motives for grandsharenting were identified: informing others about their grandchildren’s development; interacting with other grandparents; giving advice; role confirmation; showing pride towards their grandchildren or happiness of being a grandparent and saving memories. Grandparents indicated they cared about their grandchildren’s digital identities and applied cost-mitigating strategies to protect grandchildren’s privacy. Although cost-mitigating strategies varied by the grandchild’s age, respondents said to consider the content they post, to ask permission to their grandchild before sharing information to respect privacy boundaries and to avoid privacy turbulence. As only grandparents with minor grandchildren were interviewed, parental involvement was deemed important. Grandparents intervened when they experienced grandchildren’s privacy had been violated. Findings contribute to research on privacy regulation, impression management and intergenerational relations in a digital landscape." "The translucent family" "Michel Walrave" "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." "An intimate relation" "Michel Walrave" "Adolescence is characterized by fundamental transitions in identity development, autonomy, intimacy, sexuality, and achievement. In these developments, self-disclosure and privacy play an important role. Young people develop their own sense of privacy, which plays an important part in the transitions that adolescents experience, not only in their identity and growing autonomy from their parents, but also in reaching a level of intimacy with chosen others when developing tight friendships, but also when engaging in romantic relationships. In these relationships, young people share intimate thoughts and feelings online. How these forms of intimate communication both include opportunities and risks, is discussed. Finally, conclusions are drawn, and recommendations are given for further research." "Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults" "Cato Waeterloos, Michel Walrave, Koen Ponnet" "Feelings of dissatisfaction with the political status quo are believed to mobilize citizens into non-institutional political action, such as protest. Still, little is known about whether and how political participation through social media provide an alternative voicing route for discontented citizens. Guided by grievance theory, this article assesses how both electoral exit behaviour (e.g., abstaining) and attitudes of political discontent (political and media trust, political hopelessness and populism) are associated with three modes of non-electoral political participation: institutional, protest and social media participation. An online survey was administered to 720 young adults between 18 and 30 years old in Belgium. A hierarchical regression analysis showed no association between electoral exit and non-institutional participation. Furthermore, attitudes of discontent were found to not uniformly push young citizens away from institutional politics. Our results show that social media provide an important, additional political outlet for young citizens and lend support to the notion of political participation as complementary acts, rather than exclusive ones." "Non-consensual dissemination of sexual images" "Silke Van den Eynde, Stefaan Pleysier, Michel Walrave" "Digital technology provides young people with many new opportunities. However, these opportunities concurred with the development of new offences. A well-studied offence is non-consensual dissemination of sexual images (NCDSI), which can be described as the distribution of explicit photos and videos without the awareness and/or permission of the person pictured. According to previous research, adolescents and emerging adults are most often victims and perpetrators of this behaviour. Furthermore, several studies have observed that there is a relation between victimisation and perpetration of NCDSI. Our study aims to further explore this relation. Using data from the Youth monitor 2018, a survey conducted by the Youth Research Platform in Flanders, the present study researched whether there was a victim-offender overlap within NCDSI. Moreover, the relation between NCDSI and victimisation and perpetration of other offences was studied. Both bivariate and logistic regression analyses were conducted. Our results show that there is a victim-offender overlap within NCDSI as well as an association between NCDSI and victimisation and perpetration of other offences. Theoretical insights for these findings are presented. In addition, the notions ‘victim’ and ‘offender’ are discussed as the overlap questions their suitability." """Deeper Gaming""" "Rowan Daneels, Heidi Vandebosch, Michel Walrave" "Eudaimonia (i.e., orienting towards or experiencing meaning, virtue, personal growth, and other worthwhile aspects of life) has recently received a great deal of academic interest in the field of media entertainment, especially for the medium of digital games. While a recent scoping review has improved the conceptual clarity on what constitutes eudaimonia in a gaming context, a broader overview of the literature on eudaimonia in digital games research is still lacking. Therefore, we conducted a literature review of 165 records, synthesizing game, theoretical, and methodological information of the included studies as well as examining which predictors and outcomes of eudaimonic game experiences the studies identified. We found a broad range of established and less studied eudaimonic concepts in the reviewed studies, a main focus on eudaimonic experiences overshadowing the interest in eudaimonic motivations, and a variety of game types that can elicit eudaimonia. The review also reveals a lack of theoretical foundation related to both eudaimonia in general and eudaimonia in a gaming context. Finally, the predictors and outcomes related to eudaimonia were mostly connected to in-game or entertainment situations, neglecting the real-world impact these experiences might have. Contributions and future research suggestions are further discussed." """Deeper gaming""" "Rowan Daneels, Heidi Vandebosch, Michel Walrave" "Eudaimonia (i.e., orienting toward or experiencing meaning, virtue, personal growth, and other worthwhile aspects of life) has recently received a great deal of academic interest in the field of media entertainment, especially for the medium of digital games. While a recent scoping review has improved the conceptual clarity on what constitutes eudaimonia in a gaming context, a broader overview synthesizing the literature on eudaimonia in digital games and identifying important research gaps of this emergent field is still lacking. Therefore, we conducted a literature review of 165 records, synthesizing conceptual, game, and theoretical information of the included studies as well as examining which antecedents and outcomes of eudaimonic game experiences the studies identified. We found a broad range of established and less studied eudaimonic concepts in the reviewed studies, a main focus on eudaimonic experiences overshadowing the interest in eudaimonic motives, and a variety of game types that can elicit eudaimonia. The review also reveals a lack of theoretical frameworks related to both eudaimonia in general and eudaimonia in a gaming context. Finally, the antecedents and outcomes related to eudaimonia were mostly connected to in-game or entertainment situations, neglecting the real-world impact these experiences might have. Contributions and a research agenda containing future research suggestions are further discussed." "The consistency of projected online destination images" "Imam Syafganti, Sari Ramadanty, Michel Walrave" "Purpose In the context of integrated promotion, it is essential to promote destination images consistently across multiple digital channels. This study aims to examine the consistency of online destination images projected through the official tourism websites and the Instagram accounts of five main destinations in Southeast Asia. Design/methodology/approach Previous studies have used correspondence analyses to measure the relationship between categorical variables. In the present study, a Spearman’s rank-order correlation was performed after the correspondence analyses to cross-check the results. Findings Destinations in Southeast Asia tend to project images that are similar to each other. The correspondence analyses and Spearman’s correlation found that only one country in the area projected relatively consistent destination images. By contrast, the other destinations tend to promote inconsistent images through their official websites and Instagram accounts. Originality/value Previous studies have assessed the consistency of projected destination image by comparing communication channels managed by government/public organisations with channels of private sector organisations. This was achieved by comparing printed materials with digital channels. By contrast, this study highlights the importance of assessing a destination’s online projected image consistency across different digital platforms (official tourism websites and official Instagram accounts) within the perspective of integrated promotion." "Mindful sharenting" "Michel Walrave, Sofie Robbé, Luna Staes, Lara Hallam" "Background: Sharenting, parents’ sharing of personal information about children on social media is becoming increasingly controversial. Its potential risks have drawn some parents to engage in mindful sharenting: parents’ application of strategies to reduce the potentially negative effects of sharenting, as they are aware of the impact sharenting can have on the child’s privacy. Objective: This study aims to investigate parents’ motives for engaging in mindful sharenting, the strategies they implement and how relatives and acquaintances react. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with eight mother–father dyads in Belgium. At least one of both respondents had to be born between 1980 and 2000 (i.e., millennial parents), having a child aged between 0 and 6 years. Conversations were transcribed ad verbatim, coded in Nvivo, and were analyzed thematically. Results: The reasons leading parents to engage in mindful sharenting were previous negative experiences they encountered or heard of from acquaintances. In addition, parents aimed to safeguard their child’s privacy and prevent any misuse of their identity or any other forms of aggression. Furthermore, certain parents wish to grant their children the freedom to choose which media content about them is shared online at a later stage in life. As parents are aware of potential benefits of sharenting, they employ strategies to ensure their child’s privacy, while still enjoying the benefits sharenting offers them. These strategies include photographing the child from a distance, the child looking away from the camera, focusing only on a body part, covering the face with an emoticon, blurring the face, or cutting recognizable parts from the photo. However, parents engaging in mindful sharenting are also confronted with questions and negative comments from family members and acquaintances. This makes them feel like they must justify their decision. Moreover, they are sometimes confronted with family members posting identifiable pictures of their child, which leads to privacy turbulence, and parents having to clarify and renegotiate the privacy boundaries concerning image sharing. Conclusion: Parents deciding to engage in mindful sharenting engage in several strategies to balance between the opportunities sharenting can offer them, the social pressure they experience to post child-related updates, and their objective to protect their child’s privacy. However, some parents face criticism, making them feel pressured to justify their decision and having to clearly explain to family members not to make identifiable pictures of their child available online."