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By Noah Boonov I’ll be the first to admit that I’m addicted to my phone. I’ve always been addicted to technology. I’m embarrassed when my phone gives me a “Weekly Screen Report” and it says that I’ve been on for almost 8 hours a day. I know you can turn off the report, but perhaps […]
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The Commodification of Pregnancy
By Noah Boonov A video of a family revealing the sex of their baby goes viral online. Each month, a young mother captures the journey through pregnancy on TikTok. A YouTuber hits one million views on their baby’s name reveal video. These posts are not uncommon for those who use social media daily. What was […]
By Noah Boonov On a whim, I applied to be part of a Digital Theatre Creation program this past winter through a company in Barrie, Ontario called Talk Is Free Theatre. I was lucky enough to be chosen as a participant and the program finished in March. Over the course of this four-week program, I […]
By Noah Boonov When I was a little kid, it was hammered into my head that under any circumstances “Do not talk to strangers online” and “Don’t believe everything you read on the internet”. I will never forget watching ‘The North American House Hippo’ commercial (I choose to believe that they ARE real). These phrases […]
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Watch the P/I/K Book Launch
In case you missed the Parenting/Internet/Kids: Domesticating Technologies hybrid launch, held on Friday, October 7, 2022 at the University of Winnipeg, you can watch it here: https://uwcloud.uwinnipeg.ca/s/PMgs7w6yXfW3G6Y Let us know your thoughts! Posted by Fiona Green and Jaqueline McLeod Rogers
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Reflecting on Parenting/Internet/Kids
with co-editors Fiona Joy Green and Jaqueline McLeod Rogers How did the collection come to be? For over a decade, we have been thinking about the complex relationship between blogging and parenting: how it’s a boon for information sharing, yet how it is easily abused by oversharing. From this angle we were interested in the responsibilities […]
Our co-edited collection, focusing on families and homes, takes up the longstanding question of whether technologies help or harm us—are they opening possibilities or taking away initiatives and agency? Are they delivering us to utopian shores or pulling us into chaos and dystopia? This question has a long history. It was contentious in the USA […]
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Communicating Across Cultures
by Suzanne Kamata When I learned a little over twenty-one years ago that my daughter was deaf and had cerebral palsy, I was worried about how I would communicate with her. For one thing, we were (and still are) living in Japan. It was hard enough for me, as an American, to communicate with my […]