[KFM] Communicative figurations as an approach to parental media education in a deep mediatized society ZSE Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation 43 (2): 187–201. https://doi.org/10.3262/ZSE2302187.

Abstract

Against the background of a deep mediatized society, children and adolescents grow up with diverse and dynamic media practices. Through media education, parents try to maximize the new opportunities and possibilities for their children as well as to minimize challenges and dangers. Due to the wide variety of media practices, interests and competencies, as well as the attitudes and values of the actors involved, parental media education today is very individual. However, past research, which has focused in particular on parenting strategies and styles, has largely left open the question of how this complexity can be adequately analyzed. Against the background of current empirical findings, this article therefore proposes to make the approach of communicative figurations (Hasebrink & Hepp, 2017) fruitful for the analysis of parental media education. This approach makes it possible to go beyond the power structures in the parent-child relationship and to view media education as a central component of media-related familial socialization in the form of dynamic negotiation processes in the interdependent network of all actors involved.