Parenting for a Digital Future How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives

In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. In Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross draw on extensive and diverse qualitative and quantitative research with a range of parents in the UK to reveal how digital technologies characterize parenting in late modernity, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent or support. They chart how parents often enact authority and values through digital technologies since "screen time," games, and social media have become both ways of being together and of setting boundaries. Parenting for a Digital Future moves beyond the panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change.

Sonia Livingstone is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published 20 books, including The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age.

Alicia Blum-Ross is currently the Public Policy Lead for Kids & Families at Google and was formerly a Research Officer in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 - Expectations
Chapter 2 - Family life in the digital age
Chapter 3 - Social inequality
Chapter 4 - Geek identities in the digital family
Chapter 5 - (Dis)abilities
Chapter 6 - Parents and digital learning
Chapter 7 - Imagining the future
Appendix - Research methods
References
Index