Digital Capital and Its Power Game in Grandparent Fostering——An Investigation on the Use of Smartphones by Families of Left-behind Children in Rural Areas
Grandparent fostering is an important fostering model for left-behind children families.Un-der the impact of smartphones,grandparents are faced with the dual challenges of digital integration and fostering grandchildren.Smartphones have changed the learning and life style of families with left-behind children.When fostering grandchildren,grandparents learn and use smartphones to make up for the absence of parents for left-behind children.Due to their own lack of digital capital,grand-parents lack digital power when regulating the use of smartphones by left-behind children.Grandpar-ents can regain digital power with the help of parental authority,and the digital power balance under the collusion of grandparents and grandchildren is also the main way of coping."Digital power game"is a kind of elastic relationship and dynamic interaction among left-behind children,grandpar-ents and parents.Through the control,resistance and compromise among the three,a new digital cap-ital-oriented family order is finally established.
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