Growing Up in Mommy’s Blog
Author
Summary, in English
This article introduces child-raising blogs in China. Written by mothers and their 6- to 12-year-old offspring, child-raising blogs contain diverse material from and about a child’s daily life and issues relating to a mother raising her offspring. Six blogs from mothers and their daughters are studied under the aspect of generational relations and the voice of children online with the aim of understanding whether or how child- raising blogs in China are part of a changing discourse about the mother-daughter relationship. The article finds that as the objectified state of cultural capital, blogs present a smoothed-out hierarchical relationship between mother and daughter, and carry the possibility of bestowing a voice on children. Due to their continuous and permanent structure, which records opinions and content deemed important by the authors, blogs could be a catalyst or at least a magnifying lens for changes that are already occurring in family relations offline.
Publishing year
2015
Language
English
Pages
213-237
Publication/Series
Asiascape: Digital Asia
Volume
2
Issue
3
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Brill
Topic
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
- Cultural Studies
Keywords
- Blogs
- China
- generational relation
- Girls
- Mothers
- Asian studies
Status
Published
Project
- Digital China
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2214-2304