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Digi02b


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Re:producing and re:presenting the family & kinship in a digital age II 
Convenors:
Gabriella Nilsson (Lund University)
Evelina Liliequist (Umeå University)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
DIGITAL LIVES
:
Room H-203
Sessions:
Wednesday 15 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Digital platforms and technology offer new opportunities for reproducing and representing family relations and kinship. This panel examines a range of possibilities and problematic aspects of performances and displays of family and kinship in and through digital environments.

Long Abstract:

Digital platforms and technology offer new opportunities for reproducing and representing family relations and kinship. Having long been characterized by loud moral panics and a sharp generational divide between "digital natives" (people who grew up with the internet) and "digital migrants" (people who did not), in recent years the digital sharing practice "sharenting", among other normalized digital habits, has "almost become a social norm" (Brosch 2016, 226). Digital technology enables new ways and forms of becoming and being a family. With digital devices and platforms, families can organize, interact and express their kinships, belongings and identities, including new forms of family lore as digital storytelling emerge. However, social institutions like kinship and the family have always had the function of concealing abuse, exercise control, maintaining norms and counteracting change. This panel examines a range of possibilities and problematic aspects of performances and displays of family and kinship in and through digital environments.

The panel welcomes papers that focus all aspects of family life and kinship in a digital age. This includes, but is not limited to, issues such as the experiences and consequences of "sharenting" and "growing up online"; digital family lore and storytelling as ways to perform relationships and family values; influencers and the family as a digital business; the function of digital environments for reproductive- and kinship practices, strategies for parenting for a digital future, children's online privacy, and experiences of how digital technology affects which families may exist, which bodies may become parents, and by what methods.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Wednesday 15 June, 2022, -
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