Sharenting – Why Do Parents Violate Their Children’s Privacy?

• Authors: Anna Brosch

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the concept of sharenting, emphasizing its role in violating children’s privacy. Mechanisms of online self-disclosure are also analyzed, especially regarding parents’ activities consisting of posting information about their children online. Lack of legal regulations regarding the protection of children’s privacy online was also pointed out. Finally, a model of sharenting was developed, which was the basis for establishing a framework of the conceptualization of a research project on sharenting.

Keywords

EN

children’s privacy; self-disclosure; sharenting

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 54
• Pages: 75-85

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Anna Brosch

• University of Silesia in Katowice

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2018.54.4.06

Biblioteka Nauki

1969060