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Intergenerational Connections in Digital Families

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This book provides a comprehensive review of how digital communication technology can help families network and communicate across generations, despite differences in family composition, residential location, cultural values and orientations. Covering the full spectrum of intergenerational relations (including child to parent, and parent to grandparent), it offers a positive view of the value of digital technology usage within families.

The author focuses on three European countries: Finland, Italy and Slovenia, but also touches on other European countries and parts of the United States, revealing evidence that challenges ideas of universal adoption of information communication technology (ICT) and consistency in the social effects of such adoption in different regions and cultures. Further, the book discusses numerous other challenges and issues, such as:

• the social transformations and technological developments that have made digital families possible;

• the resulting changes in family roles, responsibilities, and practices; and

• the theoretical and conceptual implications of digital communication-technology use in families.
The author illustrates how ICT can facilitate family solidarity and how it helps to provide new ways of being together, and they discuss how social media, particularly instant messaging applications, helps develop affinity between family members better than traditional one-to-one personal communication tools.

Combining highly nuanced material with fresh sociological thinking, it enhances readers’ theoretical understanding of the meaning of the ‘digital family’, making it a powerful resource for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as academics. Thanks to its structured format with easy-to-understand explanations, it appeals to practitioners and researchers alike.

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Inventory Code	Barcode	Call Number	Location	Status
1908001827	EB0002461	305.2 Tai i	Central Library	Available

Detail Information

Series Title

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Call Number

305.2 Tai i

Publisher

Switzerland : Springer Cham., 2019

Collation

IX, 137p.:Ill

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-11947-8

Classification

305.2

Content Type

Ebook

Media Type

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Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Internet and families

Specific Detail Info

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Statement of Responsibility

BRF

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