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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.editor | Susan M. McHale Valarie King Jennifer Van Hook | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-19T07:57:01Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2019-03-19T07:57:01Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-319-95540-7 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55253 | - |
| dc.description | New communication technologies such as smartphones and social media are rapidly diffusing across the globe among both children and adults. American teens spend an average of 9 h a day engaged in social media such as online videos or music and half feel they are addicted to their smartphones. Fifteen percent of US adults have used an online dating site. Ninety-one percent of US adults own a cell phone, as do 89% of adults in Nigeria, 83% in Ghana, 76% in Bangladesh, and 65% in Uganda. As of the first quarter of 2018, Facebook had 2.19 billion monthly active users worldwide. Technological changes such as these are rapidly changing how parents raise their children, how couples meet and form relationships, and how family members remain connected across long distances. The 2017 National Symposium on Family Issues focused on how these dramatic changes are shaping and changing families and family life in both positive and negative ways and aimed at identifying novel directions for population and family research. The chapters in this volume represent the work that was presented at the Symposium. Together, they advance research on how families use and monitor the use of technology among family members. As highlighted in Part I of this volume, children are often the first in their families to pick up new technologies, turning the tables on parent-child lines of authority and expertise and widening the generational divide. Part II focuses on how technologies, including online dating apps, affect couple relationships. While dating apps may alter how and how quickly couples find each other, these technologies may not fundamentally change the number of partners people have or the duration or quality of their long-term relationships. Nevertheless, social media and other technologies provide opportunities for surveillance, which can erode trust within couple relationships. Finally, Part III explores how the global spread of communication technology, such as cell phones, has the potential to help families remain connected across long distances and even act as conduits for the transmission of new ideas about family roles, yet also appears to foster feelings of isolation and depression. Overall, research on how communication technologies are shaping families and family relationships is in its nascent stage. Technology evolves quickly, making it difficult for research to keep up. Additionally, the nearly universal saturation of some technologies, such as television, makes it difficult to disentangle cause and effect. As highlighted throughout the volume and in the concluding chapter, there remain many unanswered questions and many opportunities for future researchers to explore the role of technologies in how families form and function. | - |
| dc.language | en | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Families | en_US |
| dc.title | Families and Technology | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | Population Studies | |
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