Navigating Onlife Privacy: A Family Environment Perspective on Children’s Moral Principles
This article illuminates which moral principles children and their parents invoke to explain onlife privacy-related practices from a family ecological and narrative approach. It draws on a focused ethnographic study with 10 Flemish socially privileged families with a keen interest in digital technol...
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| description | This article illuminates which moral principles children and their parents invoke to explain onlife privacy-related practices from a family ecological and narrative approach. It draws on a focused ethnographic study with 10 Flemish socially privileged families with a keen interest in digital technologies and at least one child entering their teenage years. We analyse our data through the analytical lens of a sociopsychological framework that considers children’s privacy experiences from three dimensions: self-ego, environmental, and interpersonal. Overall, this article concludes that while risk-averse concerns are present in both the parents’ and children’s narratives about onlife privacy, parents have allowed their maturing children considerable privacy and leeway. Also, both parents and children articulated the importance of respecting one another’s privacy. We frame this set of principles as ‘quadruple R’: responsibility, risk, reputation, and respect for privacy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2f10fc2bdf13497a84a242b2e29f82f92022-12-22T01:31:56ZengCogitatioMedia and Communication2183-24392020-11-018418519610.17645/mac.v8i4.32771694Navigating Onlife Privacy: A Family Environment Perspective on Children’s Moral PrinciplesJoke Bauwens0Katleen Gabriels1Lien Mostmans2CEMESO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BelgiumDepartment of Philosophy, Maastricht University, The NetherlandsOffice of Research and Innovation, Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, BelgiumThis article illuminates which moral principles children and their parents invoke to explain onlife privacy-related practices from a family ecological and narrative approach. It draws on a focused ethnographic study with 10 Flemish socially privileged families with a keen interest in digital technologies and at least one child entering their teenage years. We analyse our data through the analytical lens of a sociopsychological framework that considers children’s privacy experiences from three dimensions: self-ego, environmental, and interpersonal. Overall, this article concludes that while risk-averse concerns are present in both the parents’ and children’s narratives about onlife privacy, parents have allowed their maturing children considerable privacy and leeway. Also, both parents and children articulated the importance of respecting one another’s privacy. We frame this set of principles as ‘quadruple R’: responsibility, risk, reputation, and respect for privacy.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3277childrenemerging teenagersfamily environmentmoralityonlifeprivacy |
| spellingShingle | Joke Bauwens Katleen Gabriels Lien Mostmans Navigating Onlife Privacy: A Family Environment Perspective on Children’s Moral Principles Media and Communication children emerging teenagers family environment morality onlife privacy |
| title | Navigating Onlife Privacy: A Family Environment Perspective on Children’s Moral Principles |
| title_full | Navigating Onlife Privacy: A Family Environment Perspective on Children’s Moral Principles |
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| title_short | Navigating Onlife Privacy: A Family Environment Perspective on Children’s Moral Principles |
| title_sort | navigating onlife privacy a family environment perspective on children s moral principles |
| topic | children emerging teenagers family environment morality onlife privacy |
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