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    Intimate surveillance: normalizing parental monitoring and mediation of infants online

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    Authors
    Leaver, Tama
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Leaver, T. 2017. Intimate surveillance: normalizing parental monitoring and mediation of infants online. Social Media and Society. 3 (2).
    Source Title
    Social Media and Society
    DOI
    10.1177/2056305117707192
    ISSN
    2056-3051
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69312
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    • Curtin Research Publications
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    © The Author(s) 2017. Parents are increasingly sharing information about infants online in various forms and capacities. To more meaningfully understand the way parents decide what to share about young people and the way those decisions are being shaped, this article focuses on two overlapping areas: parental monitoring of babies and infants through the example of wearable technologies and parental mediation through the example of the public sharing practices of celebrity and influencer parents. The article begins by contextualizing these parental practices within the literature on surveillance, with particular attention to online surveillance and the increasing importance of affect. It then gives a brief overview of work on pregnancy mediation, monitoring on social media, and via pregnancy apps, which is the obvious precursor to examining parental sharing and monitoring practices regarding babies and infants. The examples of parental monitoring and parental mediation will then build on the idea of “intimate surveillance” which entails close and seemingly invasive monitoring by parents. Parental monitoring and mediation contribute to the normalization of intimate surveillance to the extent that surveillance is (re)situated as a necessary culture of care. The choice to not survey infants is thus positioned, worryingly, as a failure of parenting.

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