Sharenthood, Leah A. Plunkett
Sharenthood, Leah A. Plunkett
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Sharenthood
Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online

Author: Leah A. Plunkett, John Palfrey

Narrator: Kim Niemi

Unabridged: 6 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/10/2019

Synopsis

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."

About Leah A. Plunkett

Leah A. 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Diego on September 03, 2023

Tenía pendiente leer sobre la exposición de menores en redes sociales por parte de padres, educadores… y Sharenthood toca puntos interesantes para adentrarse en el tema y te ayuda a explorar tu opinión. Entiendo que ser padre en una época donde lo digital forma parte de nuestro día a día debe ser dif......more

Goodreads review by Shonte on December 31, 2019

Brings up great points about how today's parents are creating an identity for their kids online that may follow their children into adulthood; whether that is a good or bad thing is up to the reader, I suppose. I liked that it went beyond just the idea that your kids may be embarrassed about online......more

Goodreads review by Brian on December 01, 2019

There were some pretty good points in here, but this was mainly written for a younger crowd. Fairly amusing at times - the author does a pretty good job of keeping a running "Tom Sawyer in the modern world" analogy to illustrate certain points - and there wasn't necessarily a lot of "legalese" (but......more

Goodreads review by Ocean on October 29, 2024

This mainly brings up questions we will all have in the coming years. I'm not sure how much new material was added. In fact, it would have been interesting to take it further, and see if parents end up trying to "game" the social media system by carefully calibrating their kids' social media presenc......more

Goodreads review by Kylie on May 14, 2021

Tech usage is always a fascinating topic for me, so I enjoyed the premise, thesis, and main points of this book. I think it is very wise to consider and reconsider our own usage of tech and social media as it relates to our families and children, as well as our own personal usage. I did not enjoy th......more

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