Intimate Surveillance: Normalizing Parental Monitoring and Mediation of Infants Online
Intimate Surveillance: Normalizing Parental Monitoring and Mediation of Infants Online
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DOI：
10.1177/2056305117707192
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发表时间：
2017-04-01
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Leaver, Tama
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作者：
Leaver, Tama
父母越来越多地以各种形式和方式在网上分享有关婴儿的信息。为了更有意义地理解父母决定分享关于幼儿的哪些信息以及这些决定是如何形成的，本文聚焦于两个重叠的领域：通过可穿戴技术的例子看父母对婴幼儿的监控，以及通过名人父母和网红父母的公开分享行为的例子看父母的调解作用。文章首先在有关监视的文献背景下阐述这些父母的行为，特别关注网络监视以及情感日益增长的重要性。然后简要概述了关于孕期调解、社交媒体上的监控以及通过孕期应用程序进行监控的相关研究，这是研究父母关于婴幼儿的分享和监控行为的明显前奏。父母监控和父母调解的例子将基于“亲密监视”的概念展开，这种监视涉及父母密切且看似具有侵入性的监控。父母监控和调解促使亲密监视常态化，以至于监视被（重新）定位为一种必要的关爱文化。令人担忧的是，不监视婴儿的选择因此被定位为育儿失败。
Parents are increasingly sharing information about infants online in various forms and capacities. To more meaningfully understand the way parents decide what to share about young people and the way those decisions are being shaped, this article focuses on two overlapping areas: parental monitoring of babies and infants through the example of wearable technologies and parental mediation through the example of the public sharing practices of celebrity and influencer parents. The article begins by contextualizing these parental practices within the literature on surveillance, with particular attention to online surveillance and the increasing importance of affect. It then gives a brief overview of work on pregnancy mediation, monitoring on social media, and via pregnancy apps, which is the obvious precursor to examining parental sharing and monitoring practices regarding babies and infants. The examples of parental monitoring and parental mediation will then build on the idea of "intimate surveillance" which entails close and seemingly invasive monitoring by parents. Parental monitoring and mediation contribute to the normalization of intimate surveillance to the extent that surveillance is (re)situated as a necessary culture of care. The choice to not survey infants is thus positioned, worryingly, as a failure of parenting.