Skip to search boxSkip to navigationSkip to main content

Sharenting: pride, affect and the day-to-day politics of digital mothering

  • Lisa Lazard
    ,
  • Rose Capdevila
    ,
  • Charlotte Dann
    ,
  • Abigail Locke
    ,
  • Sandra Roper
Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
 Peer-review

Open access

Abstract

The coming together of parenting and routine posting on social networking sites has become a visible and recognisable theme, and the term “sharenting” has found a place in everyday talk to describe some forms of parental digital sharing practices. However, while social media has undoubtedly provided a space for parents to share experiences and receive support around parenting, sharenting remains a contestable issue. Thus, one reading of sharenting would be as a display of good parenting as mothers “show off” their children as a marker of success. However, the term also can be used pejoratively to describe parental oversharing of child‐focused images and content. In this paper, we explore the practice of sharenting in terms of pride, affect and the politics of digital mothering in a neoliberal context to conclude that sharenting can be best understood as a complex affective and intersectional accomplishment that produces motherhood and family as communicative activities within digital social practices.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
 Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages e12443

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Social and Personality Psychology Compass (Volume 13, Issue 4)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 06/03/2019

Publication status

Published - 06/03/2019

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624145
  • Scopus: 85062801705

Access to documents

Publication metrics

Metrics

Download statistics
Download count
8

PlumX, opens in new tab

Captures
161
73
Mentions
4