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Mediated (Un)Doing Family: Cross-Border Parenting in Chinese Families
Ou, Chuyue1; Sandel, Todd2; Lin, Zhongxuan1
2023-11-10
Source PublicationSocial Media and Society
ISSN2056-3051
Volume9Issue:4
Abstract

This article elucidates the emergence of technology-empowered family practices that cross-border families develop to re-spatialize and re-temporalize their family activities and daily rhythms. Standing on the concepts of “doing family” and polymedia, we propose a dual framework of mediated doing/undoing family and explain it in an integrated WeChat environment. Specifically, the frame contains three pairs of dimensions: active versus inactive, everyday co-presence versus absent-presence and invisibility, and historical roots versus anti-traditions. Drawing on a 2-year ethnography of cross-border students communicating with their parents, we use the frame to further illuminate a set of dialectical relations between mediated doing and undoing family, and between cultural motherhood and fatherhood—culturally (un)doing gender. Findings fill gaps in the existing literature on the undoing affordances of technologies, and supplement insights on the experiences of transnational/cross-border parenthood. Our study also discusses the dual dynamics of mediated (un)doing family and presents a critical reflection on the effects of technology on gender asymmetries and gender dynamics.

KeywordChinese Families Mediated Doing Family Mediated Undoing Family Transnational Family Wechat
DOI10.1177/20563051231211941
URLView the original
Indexed BySSCI
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaCommunication
WOS SubjectCommunication
WOS IDWOS:001100780600001
PublisherSAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85176454711
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionFaculty of Social Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
Corresponding AuthorLin, Zhongxuan
Affiliation1.Jinan University, China
2.University of Macau, China
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Ou, Chuyue,Sandel, Todd,Lin, Zhongxuan. Mediated (Un)Doing Family: Cross-Border Parenting in Chinese Families[J]. Social Media and Society, 2023, 9(4).
APA Ou, Chuyue., Sandel, Todd., & Lin, Zhongxuan (2023). Mediated (Un)Doing Family: Cross-Border Parenting in Chinese Families. Social Media and Society, 9(4).
MLA Ou, Chuyue,et al."Mediated (Un)Doing Family: Cross-Border Parenting in Chinese Families".Social Media and Society 9.4(2023).
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