Mummy Blogs and Representations of Motherhood: “Bad Mummies” and Their Readers
Mummy Blogs and Representations of Motherhood: “Bad Mummies” and Their Readers
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木乃伊博客和母性表征：“坏木乃伊”及其读者
DOI：
10.1177/2056305117707186
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Kate Orton
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作者：
Kate Orton
数字技术开辟了一个新的环境，在这个环境中，母亲和母亲的经历被叙述和协商。对“妈妈博客”的研究探索了博客作为社会媒体网络可以为母亲提供安慰、支持和社会资本的方式。然而，研究并没有解决母亲，作为博客的读者，使用mamasphere作为一个文化网站，通过它的身份和角色的母亲，和母子关系，社会和数字（重建）。这篇文章关注的是“坏”或“贫民窟”木乃伊的忏悔博客：这些博客分享无聊、沮丧和母性缺陷的故事，同时享受“坏”木乃伊的颠覆性地位。利用社会媒体作为一个空间的社会监督和网络公众的理解，文章认为，在框架叙事的母亲在父母的失败和杜松子酒的绝望，“坏妈妈”博客崩溃的社会背景中重要和有趣的方式。使用两个木乃伊博客之间的冲突的例子，本文将反映在母性的数字地形既可以解放和约束的方式：一个空间，母亲表达和分享挫折，寻求团结，一个空间的公共谴责和判断，并在家庭生活的数字策展的空间，构成伦理问题。
Digital technologies have opened up new environments in which the experiences of motherhood and mothering are narrated and negotiated. Studies of “mummy blogs” have explored the ways in which blogs, as social media networks, can provide solace, support, and social capital for mothers. However, research has not addressed how mothers, as readers of blogs, use the mamasphere as a cultural site through which the identities and role of motherhood, and the mother–child relationship, are socially and digitally (re)constructed. This article focuses on confessional blogging of the “bad” or “slummy” mummy: blogs that share stories of boredom, frustration, and maternal deficiency while relishing the subversive status of the “bad” mummy. Drawing on understandings of social media as a space of social surveillance and networked publics, the article argues that in framing narratives of motherhood in terms of parental failure and a desperation for gin, “bad mummy” blogs collapse social contexts in important and interesting ways. Using an example of a conflict between two mummy bloggers, the article will reflect on the ways in which the digital terrain of motherhood can both liberate and constrain: a space for mothers to express and share frustrations and seek solidarity, a space of public condemnation and judgment, and a space that poses ethical issues in the digital curation of family life.