Contents

pp iii-iv

List of figures and tables

pp v-v

Notes on contributors

pp vi-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

Foreword - The family has become a network

pp xv-xx

one - Connecting families? An introduction

pp 1-18

Part I - Theoretical and methodological approaches

pp 19-20

two - Theoretical perspectives on technology and society: implications for understanding the relationship between ICTs and family life

pp 21-40

three - Recursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor network theory and strong structuration theory

pp 41-58

four - Weaving family connections on- and offline: the turn to networked individualism

pp 59-80

five - Oversharing in the time of selfies: an aesthetics of disappearance?

pp 81-96

six - The application of digital methods in a life course approach to family studies

pp 97-112

seven - Cross-disciplinary research methods to study technology use, family, and life course dynamics: lessons from an action research project on social isolation and loneliness in later life

pp 113-132

eight - From object to instrument: technologies as tools for family relations and family research

pp 133-156

Part II - Empirical approaches

pp 157-158

nine - Use of communication technology to maintain intergenerational contact: toward an understanding of ‘digital solidarity’

pp 159-180

ten - Careful families and care as ‘kinwork’: an intergenerational study of families and digital media use in Melbourne, Australia

pp 181-200

eleven - Floating narratives: transnational families and digital storytelling

pp 201-218

twelve - Rescue chains and care talk among immigrants and their left-behind parents

pp 219-236

thirteen - ‘Wherever you go, wherever you are, I am with you … connected with my mobile’: the use of mobile text messages for the maintenance of family and romantic relations

pp 237-254

fourteen - Permeability of work-family borders: effects of information and communication technologies on work-family conflict at the childcare stage in Japan

pp 255-272

Afterword - Digital connections and family practices

pp 273-294

Index

pp 295-302