[Air-L] [New Book and Online Launch] The Platformization of the Family

[Kate Mannell]

Hi folks,



Delighted to announce the publication of our new edited book The Platformization of the Family: Towards a Research Agenda



The book highlights the ubiquity of digital platforms in family life and asks what this means for the practices and relationships through which families are constituted. It offers empirical accounts of the ‘platformization’ of family life and presents an original agenda for future research, including proposing key questions, methodological directions, and an extension of domestical theory.



It’s open access, available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-74881-3



Edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Kate Mannell and Ola Erstad, with contributions from Sonia Livingstone, Kristinn Hegna, Mariya Stoilova, Luci Pangrazio, Katrin Langton, Andra Siibak, Antonio Membrive, and Raquel Miño-Puigcercós.



Join us for an online seminar to launch the book

Jan 20, 2025 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, CET/ Oslo time



The launch will feature comments from:

  *   Professor Sonia Livingstone<https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/sonia-livingstone>, London School of Economics and Political Science, the United Kingdom
  *   Professor Julian Sefton-Green<https://experts.deakin.edu.au/41052-julian-seftongreen>, Deakin University, Australia
  *   Professor Taina Bucher<https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/tainab/index.html> from the Media and Communications Department, University of Oslo. Author of the book Facebook<https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=facebook--9781509535163> (Polity Press).
  *   Policy and Advocacy Officer Beatrijs Gelders, working on Safer Internet & Digital Citizenship at COFACE Families Europe<https://coface-eu.org/about-us/>, Brussels, Belgium
  *   Dr Kate Mannell<https://digitalchild.org.au/team-members/dr-kate-mannell/>, Deakin University, Australia



Register here: https://www.uv.uio.no/iped/english/research/news-and-events/events/2025/book-launch-the-platformization-of-the-family.html



The book and event are a collaboration between the Australian Research Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child<https://digitalchild.org.au/> and the European research project Platforming Families: Tracing digital transformations in everyday life across generations<https://www.uv.uio.no/iped/english/research/projects/erstad-platforming-families/>





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Kate Mannell

Research Fellow • ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

Deakin University




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