Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk about Our Kids Online by Plunkett, Leah A.

Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk about Our Kids Online

From baby pictures in the cloud to a high school's digital surveillance system: how adults unwittingly compromise...
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Author: Leah A. Plunkett
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Language: English
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Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk about Our Kids Online by Plunkett, Leah A.

Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk about Our Kids Online

€27,66

Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk about Our Kids Online

€27,66
Author: Leah A. Plunkett
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From baby pictures in the cloud to a high school's digital surveillance system: how adults unwittingly compromise children's privacy online.

Our children's first digital footprints are made before they can walk--even before they are born--as parents use fertility apps to aid conception, post ultrasound images, and share their baby's hospital mug shot. Then, in rapid succession come terabytes of baby pictures stored in the cloud, digital baby monitors with built-in artificial intelligence, and real-time updates from daycare. When school starts, there are cafeteria cards that catalog food purchases, bus passes that track when kids are on and off the bus, electronic health records in the nurse's office, and a school surveillance system that has eyes everywhere. Unwittingly, parents, teachers, and other trusted adults are compiling digital dossiers for children that could be available to everyone--friends, employers, law enforcement--forever. In this incisive book, Leah Plunkett examines the implications of "sharenthood"--adults' excessive digital sharing of children's data. She outlines the mistakes adults make with kids' private information, the risks that result, and the legal system that enables "sharenting."

Plunkett describes various modes of sharenting--including "commercial sharenting," efforts by parents to use their families' private experiences to make money--and unpacks the faulty assumptions made by our legal system about children, parents, and privacy. She proposes a "thought compass" to guide adults in their decision making about children's digital data: play, forget, connect, and respect. Enshrining every false step and bad choice, Plunkett argues, can rob children of their chance to explore and learn lessons. The Internet needs to forget. We need to remember.



Author: Leah A. Plunkett
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 12/08/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780262539630

About the Author
Leah Plunkett is Associate Dean for Administration, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, and Director of Academic Success at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. She is Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

John Palfrey is Head of School at Phillips Academy, Andover, coauthor of Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age, and author of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge volume Intellectual Property Strategy.

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