Life at Home Together and Apart
Life at Home Together and Apart
What did we see when visiting students at home, with their families? Having formed our accounts of their learning and social identities in one setting, we had to revise our views of many of them when we saw them again at home—with their family, by themselves in their bedrooms, when they went online. As already foreshadowed by the network analysis, home and family was in many ways a more fundamental source of values and sustenance, but it was also a place of emotion. The media—both mass and networked—were heavily implicated in the domestic setting of values, emotions, and identities. Families sought to overcome the perceived threat the media posed to family boundaries by seeking, instead, to use the media as a source of shared understanding, a convivial experience of family solidarity that served further, however, to distance home from school. The array of disconnects that we uncovered between home and school—both chosen and inadvertent—was itself problematic for some young people, and yet these were sufficiently common- place for us to begin also to wonder about those for whom home and school offered consistent and compatible experiences
Keywords: Home, Family, Togetherness, Bedroom culture, Isolation, Parental mediation, Parental conflict, Digital media rules
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