‘Easier to isolate yourself…there's no need to leave the house’ – A qualitative study on the paradoxes of online communication for parents with young children

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Highlights：

• Online communication sources help to support families with young children.

• Online benefits: information and advice, reduces isolation, staying in touch.

• Cautionary online views – face-to-face is better than online.

• Online cautions: conflicting, judgemental, isolation potential, social comparison.

摘要

•Online communication sources help to support families with young children.•Online benefits: information and advice, reduces isolation, staying in touch.•Cautionary online views – face-to-face is better than online.•Online cautions: conflicting, judgemental, isolation potential, social comparison.

论文关键词：Facebook,Parenting,Young children,Parent websites,Social isolation

论文评审过程：Received 3 June 2017, Revised 31 October 2017, Accepted 28 January 2018, Available online 6 February 2018, Version of Record 6 February 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.01.040