Taking the village online : mothers, motherhood, and social media / edited by Lorin Basden Arnold and BettyAnn Martin.

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English
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  • Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
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xi, 202 pages ; 23 cm

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    "The rise of social media has changed how we understand and enact relationships across our lives, including motherhood. The meanings and practices of mothering have been significantly impacted by the availability of online mother groups (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) as well as internet resources intended to 'enhance' and inform maternal experience and self-concept (ex. pinterest, YouTube). The village that now contributes to the mothering experience has grown exponentially, granting mothers access to interactional partners and knowledge never before available. This volume of works explores the impact of social media forms on our cultural understandings of motherhood and the ways that we communicate about the experience and practice of mothering. The contributing authors in this anthology address diverse topics in mothering and social media, including framing of stepmothers in online forums, mothering in the digital diaspora, the construction of the "bad mother" on Twitter, immersive gaming and parenting classes, virtual mother outlaws, alternative mothering websites, feminist parenting, and more. While the works are primarily rooted in critical and feminist perspectives, a variety of methodologies and approaches to studying mothering and social media are represented in this text, and encourage a robust and thoughtful examination of the role of interactive media in the maternal experience. Lorin Basden Arnold, Ph.D. is a family communication and gender scholar. Her recent scholarly work has primarily related to understandings and enactments of motherhood. Her work has appeared in recent Demeter editions, including Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood and What's Cooking Mom? Narratives about Food and Family. She is the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the State University of New York, New Paltz. BettyAnn Martin is a doctoral candidate in Educational Sustainability at Nipissing University, North Bay, ON. She is an educator, doula, mother, and postpartum support coordinator with PSI (Postpartum Support International). Her research interests include the cultural mediation of maternal experience and identity, as well as the educational and therapeutic aspects of shared personal narrative."-- Provided by publisher.
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    Contents
    • Introduction. Mothering and Social Media: Understanding, Support, and Resistance / Lorin Basden Arnold and BettyAnn Martin
    • I: CONSTRUCTING MOTHERHOOD AND SOCIAL MEDIA
    • Digitally Mediated Motherhood: Mommy Blogs and Reading Mothering / Kate Orton-Johnson
    • The "Wicked Stepmother" Online: Maternal Identity and Personal Narrative in Social Media / Kirsti Cole and Valerie R. Renegar
    • Confession in 140 Characters: Intensive Mothering and the #BadMom Twitter / Lorin Basden Arnold
    • II. SUPPORTING MOTHERS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
    • Boobs, Babes, and Boots: Breastfeeding Support, Facebook, and Military Mothers / Amy Barron Smolinski
    • Mothering in the Digital Diaspora / Leah Williams Veazey
    • Mothers of Honor: Intentional Creation of Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum Support / Tara Stamm, Casey Yu, and Stephanie Kennedy
    • Mothering is not a Game: Game-Changing Measures for Parenting Education / Amy E. Cross
    • III. MOTHERS, RESISTANCE, AND SOCIAL MEDIA
    • From "Fakebooking" and "Flaming" to a "Moms' Support Network": Reinforcing and Resisting Intensive Mothering Online / Bronwen L. Valtchanov, Diana C. Parry, and Troy D. Glover
    • Hip Mama: Mother Outlaws in Cyberspaces / Anitra Goriss-Hunter
    • Virtual Outlaws: Feminist Motherhood on the Internet / Jocelyn Craig
    • Feminist Parenting Online: Community, Contestation, and Change / Meika Loe, Tess Cumpstone, and Susan B. Miller.
    ISBN
    • 9781772580822 ((paperback))
    • 1772580821 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016497371
    OCLC
    952447868
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