The parent app: understanding families in the digital age

Preface: The parent app and the parent trap

Part I: Digital and mobile media : cautionary tales :

1. Risk, media, and parenting in a digital age

2. Cyberbullying girls, helicopter moms, and internet predators

3. Strict parents, gamer high school dropouts, and shunned overachievers

Part II: Digital media and youth :

4. Identity 2.0 : young people and digital and mobile media

5. Less advantaged teens, ethnicity, and digital and mobile media : respect, restriction, and reversal

Part III: Digital and mobile media and family communication :

6. Communication in families : expressive empowerment and respectful connectedness

7. How parents are mediating the media in middle-class and in less advantaged homes

8. Media rich and time poor : the emotion work of parenting in a digital age

9. Parenting in a digital age : the mediatization of family life and the need to act

Appendix A: Methodology

Appendix B: Parents, children, and the media landscape : resources

Appendix C: Family digital and mobile media agreement.