Parental engagement with social media platforms: Digital mothering, children’s online privacy, and the sense of disempowerment in the technology-integrated society

Abstract

Empirical evidence on parental engagement with social media platforms has been scarcely documented in the literature. Using and replicating data from CBBC Newsround, ComRes, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, EZShield, Nominet, Ofcom, Statista, and Sukk and Soo (2018), we performed analyses and made estimates regarding parents’ sharenting practices, frequency with which parents upload photos or videos of their children to the Internet, opinions on privacy settings and sharing personal photos/videos (%, adults), children’s awareness of technical mediation, and how children feel about having their pictures posted online (%). Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.