Life Narratives

Special examples of Life-span development

Social media across the lifespan

Pre-natal and Newborn

  1. De Choudhury, M., Counts, S., & Horvitz, E. (2013, April). Predicting postpartum changes in emotion and behavior via social media. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 3267-3276). ACM.

  2. De Choudhury, M., Counts, S., & Horvitz, E. (2013, February). Major life changes and behavioral markers in social media: case of childbirth. In Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 1431-1442). ACM.

  3. Rodger, D., Skuse, A., Wilmore, M., Humphreys, S., Dalton, J., Flabouris, M., & Clifton, V. L. (2013). Pregnant women’s use of information and communications technologies to access pregnancy-related health information in South Australia. Australian journal of primary health, 19(4), 308-312.

  • High use of social media can predict post-partum depression (1)
  • Post-partum alters social media use-- less private engagement (2)
  • “puppeteering mother"
  • Information Resource (3)

Infancy

  • Screen Time
    • American Academy of Pediatrics: None <2yo, Less than an hour 2-5yo
    • Baby Einstein
      • video deficit effect (present both for TV and Apps)
  • Social media as a driving force for parenting
    • anti-vaccination movement
  • Parent mediation through online services
    • intimate surveillance concerns
    • Rights of the child?

 

Early Childhood

Concerns for "Technologisation" of childhoods

Media literacy initiatives in response to and driving the digital divide

  • Sociocultural
    • solitary, stunts social development
    • virtual experiences don't represent lessons for reality
    • Tech companies preying on vulnerable children
    • Parents preying on children  (e.g. Youtube)

Early Childhood

  • Cognitive
    • Tech consumes cognitive resources better used elsewhere
    • Inhibition of imagination, increase in passivity
    • Linguistic development inhibited
  • Wellbeing
    • Indoors instead of outdoors (sedentary instead of active)
    • Technology is addictive
    • Unsuitable content
    • Predators online
    • Reduce meaningful interactions, thus less attachment and emotional development

Middle-Late Childhood

  • 56% children have a SM account before age 12 (set up by parent)
  • Personal usage at around age 12.6 on average (80%)
  • Recommended early use to be monitored
    • children are still in concrete operational phase
    • still addressing Industry v. Inferiority
  • Under age 13, some protection on data allowed to be collected without parental consent.
    • Lying about age is legal and common

Adolescence

  • "Digital natives" and trendsetters
  • Counter-surveillance and parent/child conflict over SM
  • Negative impacts of social media"
    • cyberbullying
    • imposter syndrome and relative well being
    • Low self-esteem
    • sexting🍑
    • correlated with anxiety/depression
      • Esp Facebook
    • correlated with suicide attempts
    • Lack of privacy protections
      • permanence of digital footprint
      • Corporate manipulations

Adolescence

  • Benefits from Social Media
    • More socialization and supportive resources
    • May supplement social needs missing IRL
    • Greater perspective of community/political issues
    • Creative outlet
    • More learning opportunities (e.g. learning communities)
    • Access to taboo or embarrassing information (e.g. Puberty info)

  • Group identity v. Alienation

  • tension of "Broadcasting" and parent privacy

Emerging-Early Adulthood

  • Correlated with staying in touch with family
    • Face to face preferred with friends
  • College transition
  • Intimacy v isolation
    • Social media seen as important part of dating
    • Dating apps generally after college
  • Privacy becomes more of a concern, esp employers
  • Network expansion

Middle Adulthood

  • 56% on social media
  • More vocational focus
  • Focus on network maintenance
    • Less support-seeking
  • Prefer more segmented social media presence
    • eg. Facebook for family, Twitter for fun, etc
  • Less enjoyment and time on social media
  • Parents interested in surveillance

Late Adulthood

  • Use for reflection and tracking family
  • Growing adoption, but least time spent online
    • Often set up by family members
  • Tension between young and old
    • late adults want to track and support family
    • youth want to hide information from older family members

End of Life

  • Digital  Mourning
  • Data ownership after death
    • control of legacy
  • The Poking Dead-- deceased will outnumber living n facebook
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