1st Edition

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Sharenting Parenting, Privacy, and Consent

304 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores sharenting —the widespread practice of parents or caregivers sharing information about their children online—and explores how this pervasive digital practice is reshaping childhood, parenting, and family life in a networked society. Offering a transdisciplinary framework that integrates legal, sociological, psychological, and communication-based perspectives, the book... Read more

I. From Practice to Behavior

1. Sharenting as a multifaceted digital practice: Comparing privacy considerations based on parental motivations

Davide Cino; Alexandra Ruiz-Gomez

2. Moral and affective economies of sharenting by influencers and ordinary parents

Ana Jorge; Francisca Porfírio; Lídia Marôpo; Patrícia Dias

3. Sharenting of psychological maltreatment behavior on TikTok

Bri Stormer; Amy J.L. Baker; Marla Ruth Brassard

4. A deceptive family photography: Toward a potential deepfake sharenting

Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú; Mónica Bonilla-del-Río

5. Beyond the family album: Motivations and meanings behind sharenting

Bence Ságvári

6. Sharenting through the lens of the communicative figurations: Understanding children's reactions

Anca Velicu; Gyöngyvér Erika Tőkés

7. Adolescents navigating sharenting: Autonomy, intimacy, and care in the mediatized family

Maja Sonne Damkjaer; Anne Sofie Munch Soerensen

II. Privacy and Sharenting

8. Towards mindful sharenting: How parents and children navigate the online disclosure of personal information

Michel Walrave

9. Sharenting behaviour among Iranian parents: Understanding the role of online privacy literacy, privacy attitude, and gender

Maryam Esfandiari; Junxi Yao

10. Secure parenting, insecure privacy: Examining parenting information disclosure through protection motivation theory

Zhao Peng

11. Insights into the consequences of sharenting syndrome: Protecting children's futures

Ayten Doğan Keskin

12. Exploring attitudes and perspectives towards sharenting: Understanding the intersection of privacy, parenting, and social media

Tuba Özgül-Torun; Nergis Hazal Yılmaztürk; Sühendan Semine Er; Müge Maraşli; Figen Çok

III. Contextualization, Conceptualization, and Legal Problematization

13. Parents as adversaries, stewards, and selves: How academic research on sharenting discursively constructs parent-child subject relations

Priya C. Kumar

14. Sharenting as portmanteau: A rhetorical carrier and cloak of patriarchy

Mari Lee Mifsud

15. Sharenting viewed through the lens of vulnerability theory

Claire Bessant

16. Balancing public and private: Sharenting and child rights in the Baltic States

Kristina Ambrazevičiūtė; Merle Erikson; Agne Limante

17. Sharenting as a subject and object of freedom of expression

András Koltay; Gergely Ferenc Lendvai

Biography

Gergely Ferenc Lendvai is a researcher and chief reference officer at the Science Strategy Office at LUPS Budapest and a research fellow at DARL Budapest (ELTE). His research interests include media law, human rights, internet law, and computational social sciences (empirical sociological studies and scientometrics). He is also the editor of the Legal and Ethical Issues of Chilling Effect, co-edited with Gergely Gosztonyi (2026), and Digital Parenting/Digitális szülőség, co-edited with András Koltay (2025).

Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú is Associate Professor at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spain. Her work explores media and information literacy and the dynamics of digital culture, focusing on how children and young people engage with user-generated content, influencers, and participatory storytelling across social media platforms.

Anca Velicu is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy, Romania, with over 20 years of experience in studying children’s and adolescents’ use of digital technologies. Her research interests include children’s online risks and opportunities, cyber violence, parental mediation, gender-based misuse of personal data, digital literacy, and media education. Her latest book is Children and Digital Technologies during the COVID-19 Period (2023).

András Koltay is Research Professor at the University of Public Service and Professor of Law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary. His principal research concerns freedom of speech and the press, media regulation, and platform law. He is the author of New Media and Freedom of Expression (2019) and Media Freedom and the Law (2024).