Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Sharenting

Gergely Ferenc Lendvai, PhD candidate and chief reference person at the Science Strategy Office at LUPS Budapest and research fellow at DARL Budapest (ELTE). 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 Handbook 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 (UNIR), 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 twenty 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 has been concerned with 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).

• I. From Practice to Behavior; 1. Sharenting as a multifaceted digital practice: Comparing privacy considerations based on parental motivations; 2. Moral and affective economies of sharenting by influencers and ordinary parents; 3. Sharenting of psychological maltreatment behavior on TikTok; 4. A deceptive family photography: Toward a potential deepfake sharenting; 5. Beyond the Family Album: Motivations and Meanings Behind Sharenting; 6. Sharenting through the lens of the communicative figurations: Understanding children's reactions; 7. Adolescents Navigating Sharenting: Autonomy, Intimacy, and Care in the Mediatized Family; II. Privacy and Sharenting; 8. Towards mindful sharenting: How parents and children navigate the online disclosure of personal information; 9. Sharenting Behaviour Among Iranian Parents: Understanding the Role of Online Privacy Literacy, Privacy Attitude, and Gender; 10. Secure Parenting, Insecure Privacy: Examining Parenting Information Disclosure Through Protection Motivation Theory; 11. Insights into the consequences of sharenting syndrome: Protecting children's futures; 12. Exploring Attitudes and Perspectives Towards Sharenting: Understanding the Intersection of Privacy, Parenting, and Social Media; III. Contextualization, Conceptualization, and Legal Problematization; 13. Parents as Adversaries, Stewards, and Selves: How Academic Research on Sharenting Discursively Constructs Parent-Child Subject Relations; 14. Sharenting as portmanteau: A rhetorical carrier and cloak of patriarchy; 15. Sharenting viewed through the lens of vulnerability theory; 16. Balancing Public and Private: Sharenting and Child Rights in the Baltic States; 17. Sharenting as a subject and object of freedom of expression