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| 50-4840 | HQ799 | 2012-6687 CIP | | Humanities Communication | | Clark, Lynn Schofield. The parent app: understanding families in the digital age. Oxford, 2013. 299p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780199899616, $29.95. Reviewed in 2013may CHOICE. | | Clark (media, film, and journalism, Univ. of Denver) offers an impressive treatise on mobile technologies and the changing dynamics of family communication in the digital age. Beginning with an examination of the ways that parents socialize and negotiate boundaries for their children to abide online while striving to protect them from perceived risks such as child predators and cyberbullying, she proceeds to methodically illuminate the nature of identity formation for youths socialized into today’s technology-driven world. Finally, the author draws on more than ten years of interviews collected from numerous families of different socioeconomic backgrounds in an effort to highlight how mothers’ and fathers’ approaches to communication technologies vary between income levels. Writing in an inviting prose style, Clark effectively manages to seamlessly engage readers from her dual perspective as a parent and scholar, and she convincingly outlines the myriad ways in which digital technologies are redefining how families communicate in their daily lives. Her data are fresh, the presentation is accessible, and the argumentation is sound. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. — T. J. Blank, The State University of New York at Potsdam |
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