The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Family Dynamics

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
J. Dinesh Kumar ◽  
Arulchelvan Sriram
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Activities ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Communication Time ◽  
The Family ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Chennai City

ICT influence in various activities in the family is a periodical topic to study as the technological developments grow day by day. This research attempts to study the influence of ICT in various family activities with special reference to parent and children. 88 families from Chennai city were surveyed and interviewed to find the influence of ICT in usage, purpose, preference, leisure activities, depression time activities, and communication time. Findings found the changes occurred in families and their opinion on ICT usage in a contemporary family structure. It is found that parents and children use the ICT devices in a similar way except for preference of activity. Parents prefer ICT more for entertainment whereas children preference is for education, developing social networks, etc. Except for communication facilitation, family members feel that ICT has changed most of the family activities, but it is considered as modern and acceptable in today's digital world. Family members have both positive and negative opinions regarding ICT usage in their family.

Family Dynamics and ICT

2021 ◽  
pp. 164-190
Author(s):  
Dinesh Kumar J. ◽  
Arulchelvan S.
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Family Activities ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Information And Communication

The use of information and communication technologies is increasing in the present scenario to a great extent for various purposes such as education, entertainment, business, e-governance, and so on. When ICT use expanded its origin, it has also predominantly taken a huge place in domestic activities. In the recent decade, the domestication of technologies in home has been expanding and its influence in family activities and family members must be a considerable area to study. Though many scholars from various countries attempted to understand the ICT influence in family life, this chapter adds a contribution to the field by analysing how the different activities in domestic life influences the family dynamics. This research collected the data from two different generation family members such as parents and children. This will help to understand how the ICT use influences the intergeneration family members. It is found that ICT has a desirable influence in family activities. Young adults are highly influenced by parents, and the regular monitoring is expected to avoid harmful effects.

A case study of a Korean-American family’s code switching during conflict-related interaction

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nydia Flores-Ferrán ◽  
Sora Suh
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
American Family ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Meal Time ◽  
Discursive Strategy

The study explores how code switching (CS) manifests itself in adversarial episodes during meal time. In particular, it examines how CS emerges among members of a Korean American family as they wrangle, dispute, and argue in this intimate discursive setting. Several researchers have examined how arguments and disputes among children are realized (e.g., Boggs 1978; Brenneis and Lein 1977; Corsaro and Rizzo 1990; Eisenberg and Garvey 1981). Nonetheless, little is known about how bilingual children and their parents employ CS as a negotiating tool in conflict-related interactions. Among the findings, the study reveals that CS is manifested in the parents and children in slightly different ways although the family members skillfully maneuver the use of two languages and registers. The study uncovers how CS was employed as a strategy to attempt to achieve goals and how it intersected with stance taking. In general, CS also emerged as a discursive strategy that the interlocutors employed to explicate, challenge, mitigate, hedge, and plead during these episodes.

scholarly journals Marketing of Women Shgs Products (with Special Reference to Chennai City)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S3) ◽  
pp. 600-606
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Marketing Tactics ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Weakest Link ◽  
Direct Exposure ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right ◽  
Chennai City

Empowerment concerns folks - both women as well as men - taking control over their everyday lives: becoming conscious of their personal situation and setting, preparing their personal plans, creating space on their own, gaining skill-sets, building confidence, handling concerns, as well as cultivating self-reliance. The stamina of the link is the strength of its own weakest link. In society, women are actually the weakest hyperlinks, to ensure that they must be actually enhanced for reinforcing the culture overall which is possible only through enabling all of them. Nehru said, "Women must be uplifted for the upliftment of the nation, for if a woman is boosted, society, as well as nation, are boosted". The Women Self Aid Group participants are coming from rural areas and also do not possess much direct exposure to metropolitan history as well as a lot of all of them battle to manage the urban area ambiance. Much of the members also hesitate to approach financial institutions and also training institutions to produce more powerful their economic along with mental stamina. The family members' instances are actually also certainly not enabling the members to end up being extra dynamic as well as they are straining to handle family members and also an organisation in the right instructions. When the members furnish themselves along with overall advertising and marketing tactics with the adoption of SWOT analysis at that point just they may survive in the Chennai market.

scholarly journals Family and fertility: does kin help influence women’s fertility, and how does this vary worldwide?

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Sear
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Reproductive Decisions ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Kin Support ◽  
Salient Factor ◽  
Context Specific

AbstractDespite the tendency of some academic disciplines to assume that the nuclear family is normative, the family takes a number of different forms cross-culturally. Regardless of family form, family members typically cooperate in raising children. Intergenerational help (from grandparents to parents and children), for example, is a cross-cultural universal. Such cooperation means that the availability of kin may be one salient factor in deciding whether and when to have children. Here I consider the evidence for whether the availability of kin does influence fertility, and whether these relationships vary cross-culturally. I find evidence from middle and lower income populations that the presence of kin does increase fertility, and that these relationships are plausibly driven by cooperation between family members. In higher income contexts, associations between kin and fertility are mixed, and appear particularly sensitive to how kin availability and support is measured. There is some evidence that certain measures of support from kin (such as emotional support or help with childcare) increases the likelihood of subsequent births, but kin support is not always positively associated with fertility. Family matters for fertility, then, though these relationships may be complex and context-specific. Policy needs to take this diversity into account, and should not focus exclusively on the nuclear family model, nor neglect the roles other family members play in reproductive decisions.

In the Web of Doubts and Prospects. Consequences of the Digitisation of the Modern Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Tomasz Łachacz ◽  
Joanna Dziekońska
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Net Generation ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Media ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Impact

New information and communication technologies are an inherent part of the contemporary man’s living space. Since their very beginning, the media have always, to a lesser or greater extent, determined the functioning of individuals. Today, however, due to unlimited access, impressive growth of the media market and human creativity in the area of new technological developments, the involvement of mass media in people’s lives is taking on a new, unprecedented dimension. Such a state of affairs was envisaged as early as in the middle of the last century by, among others, M. McLuhan, who wrote that “the new media will transform us entirely: nothing will remain unchanged, untouched”, or J. Baurdrillard, who speculated at the time that media would become the life itself. Nowadays, these speculations are taking on a real form, especially as regards the net generation, which is an audience strongly dominated by the impact of the media for a simple reason, i.e. because its representatives — contemporary children and young people, unlike adults, were born and have been growing up in the digital world. Thus, the article is an attempt to present opportunities, challenges and threats involving widespread use of the latest technologies by digital natives. The authors show consequences of the phenomenon in the social, cultural, educational and security dimensions through references to the Polish and foreign literature, focusing on ambivalent implications of changes in the net generation’s way of thinking, communicating, collecting information and learning. Moreover, the article gives examples of juvenile perpetrators of attacks who were strongly linked with the virtual world prior to committing their crimes.

scholarly journals THE FAMILY - A BIOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND JURIDICAL REALITY

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
Iosif Florin Moldovan
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
Genealogical Tree ◽  
Legal Definition ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Biological Reality ◽  
The Family ◽  
Definition Of

The family is a biological reality entailed by the union between a man and a womanand by procreation; it is a social reality, given the community of life between the spouses,between parents and children and, generally, between the family members; last but not least,it is a legal reality, by way of the legal regulations regarding the family.In a narrow sense, the notion of the family includes the spouses and their minorchildren. In a broader sense, the notion of the family would mean the genealogical tree thatincludes the totality of the persons descended from a common author, to whom are added thespouses of those persons.A precise and rigorous definition of the notion of family is hindered by manydifficulties, simply because it is an object of research in various and numerous sciences,such as sociology, psychology, law, medicine, etc., each trying to capture its characteristicaspects from their particular angles. The motivation? The legislators themselves are notconsistent in establishing a legal definition of the family, providing this notion with an arrayof different meanings.In this paper, we will attempt to outline and account for these realities of the familyfrom a legal standpoint, as evinced by various statutory regulations in this field.

scholarly journals Child protection from the civil law perspective – selected issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-262
Author(s):  
Barbara M. Kałdon
Keyword(s):  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Parental Authority ◽  
Proper Functioning ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
A Minor

Care for the well-being of the youngest family members is one of the main goals of the legislator. A properly functioning family does not require an interference of the officials as long as it does not deviate from the generally accepted standards. However, if such a situation occurs, it is necessary to undertake legal mechanisms aimed at restoring the proper functioning of the family. Consequently, various branches of the law regulate instruments to help the family overcome the crisis. The article presents selected areas of civil law child protection referring to such issues as prohibition of using corporal punishment against a minor and the consequences of its violation, other forms of abusing parental authority, as well as the regulation of certain relations between parents and children.

scholarly journals Hiking Leisure

SAGE Open ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401668139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Bongaardt ◽  
Idun Røseth ◽  
Børge Baklien
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
Bodily Feelings ◽  
Phenomenological Research Method

This study explores how hiking trips in the forest afford two Norwegian families experiences of leisure during the trips. In situ interviews were analyzed using a descriptive phenomenological research method, which brackets theoretical or ideological assumptions during data collection and analysis. The results show that three levels of experience are interwoven. First, individual family members, parents as well as children, are immersed in the activities in their physical environment, which evokes positive bodily feelings. Second, interactions and dialogue between family members concerning actual events during the trip give rise to a sense of belonging and togetherness. Finally, the family creates a narrative about itself in the light of its own future as well as sociocultural expectations. We characterize this tapestry of experiences as an act of hiking leisure. We conclude that the experience of the hiking trip goes beyond a simple duality of a core versus balance activity theory and answers the call for research that incorporates the natural contexts in which leisure activities take place.

The Ugly Face of the Digital World

2022 ◽  
pp. 489-505
Author(s):  
Ethem Merdan
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Day By Day

Technology is present in every moment of our lives and has become a part of our lives. Developments in information and communication technologies affect and facilitate social life and business life day by day. Although the positive aspects of technological developments are generally mentioned, it also brings many negativities. One of these downsides is cyberbullying. Cyberbullying can be expressed as behaviors that hurt, humiliate, disturb, frighten, exclude, and cause victimization by using information and communication technologies of the individual. These behaviors can cause an individual's job and life satisfaction to decrease anxiety, sadness, tension, and loss of motivation. In this case, it becomes difficult for the individual to be effective and efficient in his/her business and social life. For this, it is useful to combat cyberbullying, and it is important to develop combat strategies for it. Otherwise, cyberbullying cannot be prevented. With the precautions, most cyberbullying can be prevented before it happens.

scholarly journals The Elderly and Life’s Channels: The Threads of Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (32) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Elma Jazz Elma-Macrohon
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationship ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
To Come

This study was undertaken with the aim to validate the assumption in JEM’s Theory on Intergenerational Visits to the Elderly, which states that Intergenerational visits promote socialization, that spirals into family solidarity, quality time shared; that affords the elderly parents more meanings, purposes, significance in their lives, the feeling of successfully aging, and make family relationship tighter everytime it happens. It is also to come up with narrative materials from the experiences of the informant-elderly during intergenerational visits, together with children, grandchildren, friends and relatives, before, during, and after the visitation. The method used is narrative inquiry. Interview schedules were used both in Filipino and English. There were recorded interviews and later transcriptions of them, then a story was woven entitled: “The Elderly and Life’s Channels: The Threads of Life”. There were six parents interviewed equal to six families. The characters in the narrations are representatives from these families. Findings proved that, “intergenerational visits to the elderly”, is a key factor to improve the social relationship between children and parents and between and among parents and children. Other findings were on the smooth and rough (conflicts) events in the family, but the latter mended by the faithful observance of intergenerational visits, which serve as the knot that binds family members together, because the former promotes socialization. It is recommended that Intergenerational visits be included in the yearly activities for the elderly people or the senior citizens, by their respective family members, often or even far in-between.

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