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.
This study aims to investigate parents' motives for engaging in mindful sharenting, the strategies they implement and how relatives and acquaintances react.
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.
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.
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.
With social media having penetrated people’s daily life, sharenting has become a common phenomenon among the current generation. The term “sharenting” is derived from the combination of the words ...“share” and "parenting” which refers to parents who often post or share their children’s photos/videos on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Blog, and so on. Sharenting has resulted in a lot of consequences due to the sharing of children’s information. To understand the consequences of sharenting, the current research analysed the contents of children’s information that are shared by parents in Malaysia. The research also investigated the reasons that motivated parents to be involved in the trend of sharenting. A qualitative research adopting one-to-one interview was conducted to obtain in-depth information and knowledge from the respondents selected through a non-probability snowball sampling method. The responses from the interviews were analysed using a thematic analysis where it was noted that in terms of the content shared, two key themes emerged specifically funny and interesting photos as well as children’s educational progress. On the other hand, in terms of reasons for sharenting, the respondents listed several reasons including to keep in touch with friends/family members, to keep as memories, and gain support from others.
Many researchers have been studying teens’ privacy management on social media, and how they individually control information. Employing the theoretical framework of communication privacy management ...(CPM) theory, I argue that individual information control in itself is desirable but insufficient, giving only a limited understanding of teens’ privacy practices. Instead, I argue that research should focus on both personal and interpersonal privacy management to ultimately understand teens’ privacy practices. Using a survey study (n = 2000), I investigated the predictors of teens’ personal and interpersonal privacy management on social media and compared different types of boundary coordination. The results demonstrate that feelings of fatalism regarding individual control in a networked social environment, which I call networked defeatism, are positively related with interpersonal privacy management. Also, interpersonal privacy management is less important when coordinating boundaries with peers than it is when coordinating sexual materials, and dealing with personal information shared by parents.
Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelen, miten lasten toimijuus rakentuu diskursiivisesti lasten kuvien jakamista käsittelevissä uutis- ja blogiteksteissä. Lähestyn lapsuutta sosiologisen lapsuudentutkimuksen ...näkökulmasta, joka painottaa lasten toimijuutta ja osallisuutta yhteiskunnassa. Artikkelin aineisto koostuu yhteensä 95 suomenkielisestä uutis- ja blogijutusta, joissa käsitellään niin sanottua sharenting-ilmiötä eli vanhempien tapaa jakaa lapsistaan kuvia ja tietoa sosiaalisen median alustoilla. Multimodaalisen kriittisen diskurssianalyysin (MCDA) avulla olen tunnistanut aineistosta kolme lasten toimijuutta määrittävää diskurssia: 1) kontrollin diskurssi, 2) ajan diskurssi sekä 3) erityislaatuisuuden diskurssi. Esitän, että sharenting-ilmiöstä käytävä julkinen keskustelu toisintaa tapaa representoida lapsuuttaikuisten toimesta ja aikuisia varten. Lasten näkemyksiä kuullaan keskustelussa vain harvoin.Keskustelua luonnehtii myös odotuksen tila, jossa aikuisten näkemykset kiinnittyvät lasten kasvuun ja kehitykseen sekä yhteiskunnallisen sääntelyn mahdollisiin muutoksiin.
Lasten kasvojen näkyminen on yksi tärkeimmistä valinnoista, joita lapsistaan kuvia ja tietoja sosiaalisen median alustoilla jakavat, niin sanottua sharentingia harjoittavat vanhemmat joutuvat ...tekemään. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan sitä, miten kaupallista yhteistyötä tekevät bloggaajaäidit merkityksellistävät lastensa kuvien jakamista. Tutkimus ammentaa teoreettisesti sekä kasvokuvien tutkimuksesta että lasten mainoskuvien tutkimuksesta. Artikkelin empiirinen aineisto koostuu kymmenen suomalaisen bloggaajaäidin teemahaastatteluista. Sisällönanalyysin avulla aineistosta on tunnistettu neljä teemaa: kasvojen muutos, kasvojen kaupallinen arvo, kasvojen tunnistettavuus sekä kasvojen kontrolloitavuus. Tutkimus tuottaa uutta ymmärrystä sharenting-ilmiön ja promootiokulttuurin rajapinnasta tuomalla esiin, että lasten kasvokuvilla on erityistä arvoa äitien blogibrändeille ja että erityisesti vauvojen ja leikki-ikäisten kuvat osallistuvat kasvojen kiertoon blogeissa ja katoavat niiden visuaalisuudesta kasvojen muutoksen myötä. Tutkimus osoittaa, että iän lisäksi myös sosiaalisen median alusta vaikuttaa siihen, jaetaanko lapsista tunnistettavia kasvokuvia vai ei, ja kontrolloidaanko jakamista aktiivisesti vai ei.
Recent evidence shows that young people across Europe are encountering hateful content on the Internet. However, there is a lack of empirically tested theories and investigation of correlates that ...could help to understand young people's involvement in cyberhate. To fill this gap, the present study aims to test the Routine Activity Theory to explain cyberhate victimisation and the Problem Behaviour Theory to understand cyberhate perpetration. Participants were 5433 young people (Mage = 14.12, SDage = 1.38; 49.8% boys from ten countries of the EU Kids Online IV survey). Self-report questionnaires were administered to assess cyberhate involvement, experiences of data misuse, frequency of contact with unknown people online, problematic aspects of sharenting, excessive Internet use, and sensation seeking. Results showed that being a victim of cyberhate was positively associated with target suitability (e.g., experiences of data misuse, and contact with unknown people), lack of capable guardianship (e.g., problematic facets of sharenting), and exposure to potential offenders (e.g., witnessing cyberhate, and excessive Internet use). Findings support the general usefulness of using Routine Activity Theory to explain cyberhate victimisation. Being a perpetrator of cyberhate was positively associated with several online problem behaviours (e.g., having contact with unknown people online, excessive Internet use, and sensation seeking), which supports the general assumption of the Problem Behaviour Theory. The findings of this research can be used to develop intervention and prevention programmes on a local, national, and international level.
•This study investigates cyberhate among 5433 young people across ten countries.•Several online correlates of cyberhate involvement will be reported.•Being a cyberhate victim can be explained by the Routine Activity Theory.•Being a cyberhate perpetrator can be explained by the Problem Behaviour Theory.•Evidence-based prevention programmes to protect young people are needed.
Kvaliteta odrastanja u današnje vrijeme značajno je određena pojavom novih, virtualnih prostora koji omogućavaju dijeljenje informacija i druženje. Korištenje društvenih mreža određeno je starosnom ...dobi korisnika, ali to ne znači da su od sudjelovanja zaštićena i djeca najmlađe dobi. Djeca rane i predškolske dobi pojavljuju se na fotografijama na instagramskim profilima svojih roditelja, pa je cilj ovog istraživanja bio utvrditi poštuju li se prava djeteta na privatnost na tim fotografijama te kakvu sliku o djeci imaju roditelji. Kvantitativnom i kvalitativnom metodom te analizom sadržaja fotografija i videozapisa djece na deset javnih roditeljskih profila na području Hrvatske utvrđena je primjetna učestalost dijeljenja informacija o vlastitoj djeci, olako shvaćanje odgovornosti u pogledu zastupanja prava djeteta i nepoštovanje prava djeteta na privatnost. Stvaranje djetetova digitalnog identiteta bez pristanka djeteta moguće je povezati s još uvijek prisutnom tradicionalnom slikom o djeci.
The quality of growing up nowadays has been significantly determined by the emergence of new, virtual spaces which provide sharing information and socializing. The use of virtual social networks is determined by the minimum age of the user. Nevertheless, this does not mean that even very young children are protected from participation. Young children and preschoolers appear in photos on their parents’ Instagram profiles. Therefore, the aim of this research was to establish the respect of children’s rights to privacy regarding this phenomenon, and to identify the way in which parents perceive their children. Quantitative and qualitative methods and content analysis of children’s photos and videos on ten public parental profiles in Croatia revealed a noticeable frequency of sharing information about one’s own children, a frivolous understanding of the responsibility towards representation of children’s rights and non-respect of children’s right to privacy. The creation of a child’s digital identity without the child’s consent can be correlated with the still-present traditional perception of children.
The focus of this research is to examine the communication techniques between parents and children in the context of parenting and giving advice (sharenting) for the prevention of children or ...adolescents' delinquency. The informants of this research were students, teachers, parents, and community leaders from two countries (Indonesia and Malaysia). Data were collected utilizing the focus group discussion techniques via Zoom meeting platform. Data were analyzed using interactive analysis which includes four stages, namely: data collection, data reduction, display data, and drawing a conclusion/verification. The results show that parenting and sharenting communication are strategic forums to guide adolescents to avoid various forms of deviant behavior, especially delinquency. The communication techniques applied consist of persuasive and in certain conditions coercive communication techniques are utilized. Communication barriers include the lack of commitment of some parents in carrying out comprehensive communication.
•The participants reported the reasons of sharenting as “Collecting Memories”, “Affectivity”, “Staying in Communication”, “Approval/Being Liked”, “Providing Benefit with Followers”, ...“Follower/Relatives Response”, and “Change in Routine”.•The theme focuses on the content of the sharing made by parents, and is constituted of such sub-themes as “Educational Activities”, “Family Activities”, and “Special Days/National/Religious Holidays” emerged.•Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp applications stand out as social media platforms where parent sharing actions take place.•When mothers posted, they reported effects such as “Increased Social Media Use”, “Evil Eye Anxiety”, “Positive Affect”, “Feeling of Being a Good Woman/Good Parent”, “Addiction”, “Wondering about Others”, and “Temporary Happiness”.•It is seen that there are findings under the theme of “criteria of mothers’ sharing experiences”, under which there is the sub-theme of “Security” also having the sub-themes of “Account Confidentiality” and “Privacy”. Another sub-theme of “the sharing criteria” theme is “Child’s State”, and under this sub-theme there are the categories of “Approval”, “Positive Mood”, “Appearance”, and “Development Period/Age” that come to the fore.•While it was found in this research that some participants acted consciously and cared about the issues of “Respect for the Child” and “Self-Control”.
The rapid changes in the field of technology have made the use of social media one of the routines in the life of the individual. This behaviour of parents who share information about their children with pictures, videos, stories, and status updates on social networks such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp is defined as “Sharenting”. Parents sharing information about their children on social media brings with it many risks. Children who do not realise the possible risks due to their age are abused by their primary caregivers. Understanding the experience of Sharenting, which is seen as a present danger to children, motivated the researchers to conduct this research. From this point of view, the aim of this research is to understand the reasons and effects of social media sharing of parents about their children. In this study, which was carried out in the phenomenological design of the qualitative research method, twelve participants were reached with the snowball sampling method. The data collected from the participants were obtained with a semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers. The semi-structured interview form consisted of nine open-ended questions, each of which was aimed at understanding the sharenting phenomenon. Within the scope of the research, online interviews were conducted with each participant with ZOOM Meeting, which lasted an average of 40 min. The interviews with the participants were transcribed. The obtained data were subjected to content analysis independently by three researchers who conducted the research. Afterwards, the research team evaluated the themes and categories determined by each researcher and finalised the findings. As a result, it was seen that the sharing experiences of the participants were gathered under six different themes. These themes were determined as sharenting “reasons”, “actions”, “platforms”, “effects”, “criteria”, and “awareness”. The reasons for sharenting of the participants were determined as “Collecting Memories”, “Affectivity”, “Staying in Communication”, “Approval/Being Liked”, “Providing Benefit with Followers”, “Followers/Relatives Reaction”, and “Change in Routine”. When the participants shared, “Increased Social Media Use”, “Evil Eye Anxiety”, “Positive Affect”, “The Feeling of Being a Good Woman/Good Parent”, “Addiction”, “Wondering About Others”, “Temporary Happiness”, and “Neutral Effect” effects were found. In the absence of sharing, the effects of “Neutral Effect”, “Impulse to Share”, and “Feeling Inadequate” were determined. The findings are presented by giving exemplary quotations for each theme.
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