Barbara Barbosa Neves is Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Melbourne and studies digital technologies and social inequalities. She is an elected board member of the Family Research Committee within the International Sociological Association (ISA). Cláudia Casimiro is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, and researcher at CIEG, undertaking research on family violence, gender, digital technologies and online dating. She is co-convenor of the Families and Life Course network of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS).

• Foreword: The family has become a network ~ Barry WellmanConnecting families? An introduction ~ Barbara Barbosa Neves and Cláudia CasimiroPart I: Theoretical and methodological approachesTheoretical perspectives on technology and society: implications for understanding the relationship between ICTs and family life ~ Natasha Mauthner and Karolina KazimierczakRecursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor-network theory and strong-structuration theory ~ Geoffrey Mead and Barbara Barbosa NevesWeaving family connections on- and offline: the turn to networked individualism ~ Anabel Quan-Haase, Hua Wang, Barry Wellman, and Renwen ZhangOversharing in the time of selfies: an aesthetics of disappearance? ~ Amanda du PreezThe application of digital methods in a life course approach to family studies ~ Alexia MaddoxCross-disciplinary research methods to study technology use, family, and life course dynamics: lessons from an action research project on social isolation and loneliness in later life ~ Barbara Barbosa Neves, Ron Baecker, Diana Carvalho, and Alexandra SandersFrom object to instrument: technologies as tools for family relations and family research ~ Cláudia Casimiro and Magda NicoPart II: Empirical approaches Use of communication technology to maintain intergenerational contact: toward an understanding of ‘digital solidarity’ ~ Siyun Peng, Merril Silverstein, J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Woosang Hwang, Sangbo Nam, and Brianna RouthCareful families and care as ‘kinwork’: an intergenerational study of families and digital media use in Melbourne, Australia ~ Jolynna Sinanan and Larissa HjorthFloating narratives: transnational families and digital storytelling ~ Catalina Arango PatiñoRescue chains and care talk among immigrants and their left-behind parents ~ Sondra Cuban‘Wherever you go, wherever you are, I am with you … connected with my mobile’: the use of mobile text messages for the maintenance of family and romantic relations ~ Bernadette Kneidinger-MüllerPermeability of work-family borders: effects of information and communication technologies on work-family conflict at the childcare stage in Japan ~ Yuka SakamotoAfterword: Digital connections and family practices ~ Elizabeth B. Silva

“Connecting Families.... offers a vital and timely contribution to the multivalent links of ICTs with families. That its backbone is life course gives an additional bonus of insight and perspective.” Susan A. McDaniel, Canada Research Chair in Global Population & Life Course, President of the ISA Family Research Committee, University of Lethbridge, Canada

Barbara Barbosa Neves is Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Melbourne and studies digital technologies and social inequalities. She is an elected board member of the Family Research Committee within the International Sociological Association (ISA). Cláudia Casimiro is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, and researcher at CIEG, undertaking research on family violence, gender, digital technologies and online dating. She is co-convenor of the Families and Life Course network of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS).

• Foreword: The family has become a network ~ Barry WellmanConnecting families? An introduction ~ Barbara Barbosa Neves and Cláudia CasimiroPart I: Theoretical and methodological approachesTheoretical perspectives on technology and society: implications for understanding the relationship between ICTs and family life ~ Natasha Mauthner and Karolina KazimierczakRecursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor-network theory and strong-structuration theory ~ Geoffrey Mead and Barbara Barbosa NevesWeaving family connections on- and offline: the turn to networked individualism ~ Anabel Quan-Haase, Hua Wang, Barry Wellman, and Renwen ZhangOversharing in the time of selfies: an aesthetics of disappearance? ~ Amanda du PreezThe application of digital methods in a life course approach to family studies ~ Alexia MaddoxCross-disciplinary research methods to study technology use, family, and life course dynamics: lessons from an action research project on social isolation and loneliness in later life ~ Barbara Barbosa Neves, Ron Baecker, Diana Carvalho, and Alexandra SandersFrom object to instrument: technologies as tools for family relations and family research ~ Cláudia Casimiro and Magda NicoPart II: Empirical approaches Use of communication technology to maintain intergenerational contact: toward an understanding of ‘digital solidarity’ ~ Siyun Peng, Merril Silverstein, J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Woosang Hwang, Sangbo Nam, and Brianna RouthCareful families and care as ‘kinwork’: an intergenerational study of families and digital media use in Melbourne, Australia ~ Jolynna Sinanan and Larissa HjorthFloating narratives: transnational families and digital storytelling ~ Catalina Arango PatiñoRescue chains and care talk among immigrants and their left-behind parents ~ Sondra Cuban‘Wherever you go, wherever you are, I am with you … connected with my mobile’: the use of mobile text messages for the maintenance of family and romantic relations ~ Bernadette Kneidinger-MüllerPermeability of work-family borders: effects of information and communication technologies on work-family conflict at the childcare stage in Japan ~ Yuka SakamotoAfterword: Digital connections and family practices ~ Elizabeth B. Silva

“Connecting Families.... offers a vital and timely contribution to the multivalent links of ICTs with families. That its backbone is life course gives an additional bonus of insight and perspective.” Susan A. McDaniel, Canada Research Chair in Global Population & Life Course, President of the ISA Family Research Committee, University of Lethbridge, Canada

Barbara Barbosa Neves is Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Melbourne and studies digital technologies and social inequalities. She is an elected board member of the Family Research Committee within the International Sociological Association (ISA). Cláudia Casimiro is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, and researcher at CIEG, undertaking research on family violence, gender, digital technologies and online dating. She is co-convenor of the Families and Life Course network of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS).

• Foreword: The family has become a network ~ Barry WellmanConnecting families? An introduction ~ Barbara Barbosa Neves and Cláudia CasimiroPart I: Theoretical and methodological approachesTheoretical perspectives on technology and society: implications for understanding the relationship between ICTs and family life ~ Natasha Mauthner and Karolina KazimierczakRecursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor-network theory and strong-structuration theory ~ Geoffrey Mead and Barbara Barbosa NevesWeaving family connections on- and offline: the turn to networked individualism ~ Anabel Quan-Haase, Hua Wang, Barry Wellman, and Renwen ZhangOversharing in the time of selfies: an aesthetics of disappearance? ~ Amanda du PreezThe application of digital methods in a life course approach to family studies ~ Alexia MaddoxCross-disciplinary research methods to study technology use, family, and life course dynamics: lessons from an action research project on social isolation and loneliness in later life ~ Barbara Barbosa Neves, Ron Baecker, Diana Carvalho, and Alexandra SandersFrom object to instrument: technologies as tools for family relations and family research ~ Cláudia Casimiro and Magda NicoPart II: Empirical approaches Use of communication technology to maintain intergenerational contact: toward an understanding of ‘digital solidarity’ ~ Siyun Peng, Merril Silverstein, J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Woosang Hwang, Sangbo Nam, and Brianna RouthCareful families and care as ‘kinwork’: an intergenerational study of families and digital media use in Melbourne, Australia ~ Jolynna Sinanan and Larissa HjorthFloating narratives: transnational families and digital storytelling ~ Catalina Arango PatiñoRescue chains and care talk among immigrants and their left-behind parents ~ Sondra Cuban‘Wherever you go, wherever you are, I am with you … connected with my mobile’: the use of mobile text messages for the maintenance of family and romantic relations ~ Bernadette Kneidinger-MüllerPermeability of work-family borders: effects of information and communication technologies on work-family conflict at the childcare stage in Japan ~ Yuka SakamotoAfterword: Digital connections and family practices ~ Elizabeth B. Silva

“Connecting Families.... offers a vital and timely contribution to the multivalent links of ICTs with families. That its backbone is life course gives an additional bonus of insight and perspective.” Susan A. McDaniel, Canada Research Chair in Global Population & Life Course, President of the ISA Family Research Committee, University of Lethbridge, Canada