Sharenting, parent blogging, and the boundaries of the digital self

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

Communication Ethics of “Sharenting” : A Content Analysis of Instagram Mom Meso-Influencers

Among the many concerns of social media, “sharenting,” or parents oversharing about their children online, is becoming increasingly prevalent. Millions of children are growing up on the internet with little-to-no control of their digital narrative, instead becoming fashionable or even lucrative props on their parent’s social media platforms. The purpose of the study was to explore how much and what type of sharenting parents post on social media. This study explores five key elements of sharenting through a content analysis. Researchers coded 10 Instagram mom meso-influencer accounts within a 30-day timeframe and determined how many posts were embarrassing, intrusive, revealing, child sponsorship, or personally identifiable information. Over half of all content coded was coded as sharenting. Researchers found that individually, over half of almost every meso-influencers’ content was coded as sharenting, albeit outliers. The most frequently seen type of sharenting was not one of the five key elements. Instead, the existence of more than one element was observed most frequently among posts. In conclusion, social media users should be cognizant of how widespread sharenting is throughout various corners of Instagram and other platforms. From a communication ethics standpoint, users are recommended to proceed with caution before engaging with sharenting content due to its dehumanizing nature

Mummy influencers and professional sharenting

Sharenting (sharing parenting on social media) has become a widespread activity, and some of those parents become family influencers. Female influencers have been on the rise, partly as an alternative to the precariousness of the job market. This article presents a qualitative study on 11 Portuguese mummy and family influencers, analysing social media content observed throughout 2.5 years, as well as media discourses on them. It focuses on how these female content creators portray parenting and family, work–life balance as an influencer and their boundaries for privacy and intimacy. It demonstrates how prominent mummy influencers reproduce a neoliberal ethos which favours an individual management of reconciling motherhood and a career in the context of post-austerity and precarity, through an emotional discourse that promotes relatability with the audience, converted into an essentially consumerist agenda.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

‘When you realise your dad is Cristiano Ronaldo’: celebrity sharenting and children’s digital identities

Sharenting, or the practice of sharing one’s parenting or information about one’s children on social media, occurs in an increasingly platformized digital culture, where visual formats are central across participatory and commercial repositories. This paper investigates the articulation between sharenting as performed by celebrities and the wider construction of children’s digital identities. Through qualitative content analysis, this research looks at how Cristiano Ronaldo, the most-followed individual on Instagram since 2018, his partner, and his mother shared information about his children on that social media platform between 2018 and 2020. Through manual exploration, we searched for Ronaldo’s children across a variety of digital spaces. Our analysis reveals that sharenting on Instagram engages audiences through the portrayal of children as the parents’ extended self. Content from Instagram and news media is appropriated in vernacular and commercial digital spaces for conflicting affects: the cute father-son dyad, and the son as extension of the uber-famous, vain father. This extreme case shows how the digital identities of children of celebrities are widely public, formed by the everyday, intimate content of the family’s life, which is persistent and collectively recreated by news media, vernacular culture, and commercial platforms.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

SHARENTING IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION

This article discusses “sharenting” (sharing representations of one’s parenting or children online) in the perspevtive of Islamic education. The term “sharenting”, coined from “share” and “parenting”, When parents share information about their children online, they do so without their children’s consent. Lack of legal regulations regarding the protection of children’s privacy online was also pointed out. sharenting has become a subject of research by increasing numbers of scholars worldwide, but the knowledge of this phenomenon is still meagre. This Article explores potential legal solutions to this issue and offers a set of best practices for parents to consider when sharing about children online in the perspevtive of Islamic education that Sharenting must be done by parent by maintaingin four principles : Maintain the nature of children (al muhafazoh), Develop childrens potential (at tanmiyah), With clear directions (at taujih), and Gradually (at tadaruj)

The Undisclosed Dangers of Parental Sharing on Social Media: A Content Analysis of Sharenting Images on Instagram

Sharenting is a new term used to define the action of parents posting about their children online. Social media provides parents with an easy to use outlet for image distribution to all family and friends that simultaneously archives the images into a digital baby book. While convenient, once publicly posted anyone can gain access to the images of the children. Instagram is a favorable social media channel for sharenting. A popular hashtag on Instagram, #letthembelittle, contains 8 million posts dedicated to child imagery. A set of 300 randomly selected images under the hashtag were coded. Images tended to contain personal information such as the child’s name, age, and location. Communication Privacy Management and Uses and Gratifications theories provided the theoretical frameworks for this study. The results suggested a possibly dangerous pattern of parental oversharing that could negatively impact the child and the child’s safety

Parenting in the Public Eye

This paper examines how parents share photos, videos and information about their children on social media websites, called sharenting. COPPA, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act is mentioned specifically because it does not protect children’s online presence from their parents. Multiple types of sharenting are examined such as; posts for family and friends to view, informational blogs and posts, punishment posts, and YouTube vlogging, or blogging in a video format. Vlogging is dissected by studying three different family vlog YouTube channels and the content that they create. The confidence and sense of self worth of children whose parents participate in sharenting is discussed as well as both present and future repercussions of these posts. Additionally, threats to children’s safety are looked at from how schools, activities and addresses are sometimes available to find on parent’s profiles on websites like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. As well as safety risks, there are often risks of bullying for the child because of the often sensitive nature of these posts. All of these have the potential to be very detrimental to children and their emotional development. Keywords: Sharenting, vlogging, family vloggers, punishment posts, social medi

Sharenting, Parenting, and Identifying: Can Privacy Prevail?

Technology and privacy are intertwined and often in conflict with each other. Nowhere is this more evident than in sharenting, the transmission of private details about children (e.g., pictures) via digital channels (e.g., social media) by an adult in charge of their well-being (i.e., parent or guardian). Sharenting can offer comfort to a parent, a sense of belonging to a community, and can give children a sense of pride from likes from family and friends. However, there are privacy and developmental risks for children from sharenting. We explore the relative roles of parent identity verification and the calculus of behavior in affecting sharenting decisions. Using data collected from 309 parents, we find that only perceived risk of sharenting affects the frequency of deleting posts while benefits and parental identity lead to a positive affect towards sharenting. Positive affect, however, is not linked to changes in frequency of deleting posts

#dadtribe: Performing Sharenting Labour to Commercialise Involved Fatherhood

This study looks at commercial representations of fatherhood within macromarketing. We base our study on ‘Instadads,’ a group of father influencers who use Instagram to document their family lives, and foster a following that is attractive to brand sponsorship. Through a netnography of 21 Instadad accounts and 10 in-depth interviews, we investigate how these influencers perform sharenting labour, which is the labour involved in commodifying and monetising the sharing of parental experiences. We posit that through this labour, father influencers contribute to early attempts at translating the new discursive territory of involved fatherhood into mainstream commercial representations. Sharenting labour has the potential to shift discourses on masculinities, lending more legitimacy to male parental caregiving activities

SHARENTING YANG DILAKUKAN OLEH IBU MUSLIM DI INSTAGRAM DITINJAU DARI AL QURAN

Perkembangan teknologi berpengaruh terhadap pola sosialisasi masyarakat, temasuk penyebaran informasi dan interaksi antar orangtua seputar pengasuhan anak. Situs jejaring sosial menjadi media untuk orangtua melakukan sharenting salah satunya adalah instagram. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menunjukan fenomena sharenting yang dilakukan oleh ibu muslim dan bagaimana fenomena sharenting ini ditinjau dari al quran terutama dari QS. Lukman. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan kualitaif deskriptif, pengambilan data dilakukan dengan menganalisis akun instagram ibu muslim yang melakukan sharenting. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa sharenting yang dilakukan oleh ibu muslim di instagram telah sesuai dengan pola asuh yang diterapkan oleh Luqman Hakim terhadap anak-anaknya sebagaimana terkandung dalam Q.S Lukman. Technological developments affect the pattern of socialization of society, including the dissemination of information and interactions between parents around childcare. Social networking sites become a media for parents to do sharenting, one of which is Instagram. This study aims to show the phenomenon of sharenting conducted by Muslim mothers and how this sharenting phenomenon is viewed from the Koran, especially from the QS. Lukman. This research method uses descriptive qualitative, data collection is done by analyzing the Instagram account of Muslim mothers who do sharenting. The results showed that the sharenting conducted by Muslim mothers on Instagram was in accordance with the parenting applied by Luqman Hakim towards his children as contained in Q.S Lukman