Ideals, Anxieties and Ties of the Perinatal
Focusing on the perinatal period, this book explores the impact of digital technology on new mothers, examining how the digital landscape shapes their experiences and challenges before and after childbirth. It provides insights into the complexities of early motherhood in contemporary society, highlighting the interplay between motherhood and digital culture.
Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies
The book explores the pervasive influence of algorithms in modern parenting, highlighting how they affect daily decisions across various platforms like search engines and social media. It raises awareness about the often unnoticed impact of these technologies on children's upbringing and offers insights on how parents can equip themselves and their children for a future increasingly governed by data, automation, and artificial intelligence.
This book offers a nuanced understanding of ‘offensive’ television content by drawing on an extensive research project, involving in-depth interviews and focus groups with audiences in Britain and Germany. Provocative Screens asks: what makes something really offensive and to whom in what context? Why it offence felt so differently? And how does offensive content matter in public life, regulation, and institutional understandings?