Growing Up Wireless: Being a Parent and Being a Child in the Age of Mobile Communication

ATTENZIONE: NON E UN ERRORE. Il capitolo é stato selezionato e pubblicato in un volume di Selected Readings (curatore E.J. Szewczack) The chapter illustrates the role of the mobile phone in the rise of new cultural models of parenting. According to a phenomenological theoretical approach to culture and everyday life, the author argues that the relationship between technologies, culture, and society should be conceived as a mutual construction. Analysing new social phenomena such as “hyperparenting” and the “dialogic use” of mobile phones, the author argues upon the role of mobile communication technologies in articulating the paradoxical nature of the contemporary cultural model of family education.