"Sharenting," parent blogging, and the boundaries of the digital self
"Sharenting," parent blogging, and the boundaries of the digital self
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DOI：
10.1080/15405702.2016.1223300
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Livingstone, Sonia
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作者：
Blum-Ross, Alicia;Livingstone, Sonia
这篇文章探讨“晒娃式育儿”（在网上分享自己的育儿过程或孩子的相关情况）是否是一种数字自我呈现的形式。通过对17位家长博主的访谈，我们探究了家长们如何界定其数字自我的边界，并说明什么是他们“可以讲述的故事”。我们发现博主们面临着深刻的道德困境，因为呈现自己作为家长的身份不可避免地会公开孩子生活的某些方面，从而带来风险，而矛盾的是，他们有责任防范这些风险。因此，家长们通过权衡对自己、当下以及想象中未来的孩子以及对其现实和虚拟社区的多种责任，来评估该分享什么。数字平台所体现的个人主义身份观念，更多地阻碍而非促进了呈现关系性自我的数字实践，从而加剧了家长以及更广泛社会在评判新兴的自我博客类型时的矛盾心理。
This article asks whether "sharenting" (sharing representations of one's parenting or children online) is a form of digital self-representation. Drawing on interviews with 17 parent bloggers, we explore how parents define the borders of their digital selves and justify what is their "story to tell." We find that bloggers grapple with profound ethical dilemmas, as representing their identities as parents inevitably makes public aspects of their children's lives, introducing risks that they are, paradoxically, responsible for safeguarding against. Parents thus evaluate what to share by juggling multiple obligations-to themselves, their children in the present and imagined into the future, and to their physical and virtual communities. The digital practices of representing the relational self are impeded more than eased by the individualistic notion of identity instantiated by digital platforms, thereby intensifying the ambivalence of both parents and the wider society in judging emerging genres of blogging the self.