On the back of their last book, Cyber-risk and Youth, and building on a new research project, Adorjan and Ricciardelli marshal current research to explore parenting in the digital age.
Utilizing 70 original interviews from rural and urban area Canadian parents, the book provides an overview of research on "digital parenting" and illuminates the modern parental experience of managing children's access to internet-connected technologies. The book explores parents' experiences with cyberbullying and nonconsensual sexting, as well as concerns over breaches of privacy, screen time and internet addiction. It also investigates parents' views regarding effective and ineffective strategies in mediation of technology and cyber-risk, including new directions such as restorative practices intended as a response to online conflict and harm. While framing their discussions among sociological theories, Adorjan and Ricciardelli also deliberately emphasize the gendered nature of the book's discourses and encourage critical reflection of various online surveillance technologies, often marketed to mothers, to keep children safe.
As such, Parenting Cyber-Risk is a standout research monograph which not only offers broad insight into 21st-century parenting challenges but also offers solutions. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying criminology, sociology and any other related fields.
Utilizing 70 original interviews from rural and urban area Canadian parents, the book provides an overview of research on "digital parenting" and illuminates the modern parental experience of managing children's access to internet-connected technologies. The book explores parents' experiences with cyberbullying and nonconsensual sexting, as well as concerns over breaches of privacy, screen time and internet addiction. It also investigates parents' views regarding effective and ineffective strategies in mediation of technology and cyber-risk, including new directions such as restorative practices intended as a response to online conflict and harm. While framing their discussions among sociological theories, Adorjan and Ricciardelli also deliberately emphasize the gendered nature of the book's discourses and encourage critical reflection of various online surveillance technologies, often marketed to mothers, to keep children safe.
As such, Parenting Cyber-Risk is a standout research monograph which not only offers broad insight into 21st-century parenting challenges but also offers solutions. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying criminology, sociology and any other related fields.
'A welcome addition to the sociological literature on children, risk and online technologies, this book provides an in-depth and nuanced look at parents' understandings, experiences and strategies as mediated by cultural expectations. It will prove valuable to sociologists of technology, youth and family as well as to parents themselves whose voices have been largely absent from the literature on digital parenting.'
- Glenda Wall, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University
'Adorjan and Ricciardelli bring needed clarity to the growing complexities and contradictions in technoparenting, set within the broader context of an increasingly algorithmic world. Parenting Cyber-Risk actively translates new research and the existing literature into sociologically-grounded guidance for schools and families, while pointing towards the need for future research. Emphasizing a holistic, restorative approach that resists dualistic notions of "online" and "real life," "victim" and "cyberbully," the authors work to address the lived risks and experiences of mediated families.'
- Nathan Fisk, Assistant Professor, Cyber-security Education, University of South Florida
- Glenda Wall, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University
'Adorjan and Ricciardelli bring needed clarity to the growing complexities and contradictions in technoparenting, set within the broader context of an increasingly algorithmic world. Parenting Cyber-Risk actively translates new research and the existing literature into sociologically-grounded guidance for schools and families, while pointing towards the need for future research. Emphasizing a holistic, restorative approach that resists dualistic notions of "online" and "real life," "victim" and "cyberbully," the authors work to address the lived risks and experiences of mediated families.'
- Nathan Fisk, Assistant Professor, Cyber-security Education, University of South Florida