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• Parental mediation theory article out!
  “Parental Mediation Theory for the Digital Age,” by Lynn Schofield Clark, Nov 2011. […]
• Congratulations, Institute for Digital Humanities Fellows!
  Michaela Ardizzioni & Nabil Echchaibi Assistant Professors, Languages (Italian) & Journalism University of Colorado at Boulder Project: “Mediatization of Media Activism: New Tools, Ubiquitous Networks, Emergent Voices” Leonardo Flores Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Educational Technologies University … Continue reading → […]
• Deadline for Digital Humanities Fellows: 12/15/10
  Info on the University of Denver’s Institute for Digital Humanities program: […]

Digital Parenting

• The New Upper Middle Class
  I’m reading Charles Murray’s book, Coming Apart, which argues that the U.S. has become a two-culture system defined by increasing isolation of the upper middle class from the working class. I’m sure I’m going to dispute some of his policy suggestions, but I’m finding the sociology in the first half (on the new upper middle […]
• More on technologies for tracking teens
  In my last post, I wrote about parents using tracking devices to find out where their children were so as to keep them out of danger. I’ve been curious about these tracking devices since I’ve been interviewing parents about how they negotiate digital and mobile media use with their teenage children. I met a friend […]
• Tracking our growing children, one microchip at a time
  Last night I went out for dinner with four women friends. Each has children that are about the same age as my own children, who are 11 and 13. The first thing one friend said to another when we sat down was that she had heard that chips were now available. Being ever-perceptive, I assumed […]