The Platformization of the Family: Digital Book Launch
Date: 20.01.2025 12:00
Other event
Format: online
Event Fee: Free
Organizer(s):
University of Oslo
With their newly released book «The Platformization of the Family», researchers from Australia, Norway, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Estonia set out an original agenda for researching the role of digital platforms in family life across generations. Platforms and apps such as FaceTime, Netflix, Google Nest, baby feeding apps, and physical exercising apps have begun to structure virtually every aspect of our personal and social lives. This happens within everyday family life, across generations, and it affects the relations between parents, children, and grandparents. This cultural process can be described as «platformization». At this digital book launch, researchers from three different countries will give short presentations based on the book, followed by invited commentaries. Presenters Professor Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science, the United Kingdom Research Fellow Kate Mannell, Deakin University in the Australian Research Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child Professor Julian Sefton-Green, Deakin University, Australia The event is hosted by Professor Ola Erstad from the Department of Education, University of Oslo. The presenters will share Examples of the ways that digital platforms are woven into the practices of «doing» family. A research agenda that identifies pressing questions about what it means for family life to be «platformized». A proposal for a new theoretical concept of «extended domestication» that explains how platforms become part of the fabric of family life. Commentaries Professor Taina Bucher from the Media and Communications Department, University of Oslo. Author of the book Facebook (Polity Press). Policy and Advocacy Officer Beatrijs Gelders, working on Safer Internet & Digital Citizenship at COFACE Families Europe, Brussels, Belgium Alexandra Evans, co-founder of the Digital Childhood Agency, UK. Policy and Strategy Adviser at the 5Rights Foundation. Previously working at TikTok. Practical information The event is open to everyone, and it is digital only. The stream will be made available at this webpage at 12h CET/ Oslo time, Monday Jan. 20. We encourage the audience to ask written questions during the event, and will provide a channel for this.
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