Parenting/Internet/Kids, with three key terms slashed together, conveys the idea that the practice of parenting may extend both to the Internet and to our children – to the extent that both require attention, care and forms of regulation, and, in turn, provide support and enjoyment. While the triadic title is somewhat playful, it also strikes a serious note and introduces layered possibilities: we are not simply raising children who have grown up in the internet age, but also Domesticating Technologies by “managing” the computer (relatively young in age, too, having established itself in homes in the 1980s). Including perspectives from scholars and parents living in Australia, Canada, India, Japan, the UK and the USA, the collection examines how the intimate presence of computer technology in our homes and on our bodies affects not only mothers and parenting, but family life more broadly. Some chapters consider questions of domestic labour and parental responsibilities. Others focus on how children use and are influenced by the internet and social media, whether for positive or troubling outcomes. The volume ends by pressing the question of how regulation might be responsive to a global world of differing contexts and perceptions.

Fiona Joy Green (she/her) is a cisgender, temporarily able-bodied, straight feminist mother who believes in the power of revolutionary feminist motherwork beyond the gender binary. She is a white settler and holds the position of Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg, located on ancestral lands, on Treaty One Territory, and on the homeland of the Métis peoples. Fiona is the author of Practicing Feminist Mothering (ARP) and co-editor of seven Demeter Press collections that address ever-changing feminist parenting practices and maternal pedagogies. Recent titles include Mothers, Mothering and COVID-19: Reflections from a Pandemic (2021), Parenting/ Internet/ Kids: Domesticating Technologies (2022), Coming into Being: Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism, (2023) and the forthcoming co-edited collection Revolutionizing Motherlines (2025).

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Jaqueline McLeod Rogers is a mother of two adult daughters and Professor and Chair (Department of Rhetoric) at University of Winnipeg. Her doctoral thesis studied fiction by women (published as Aspects of the Female Novel) and she has continued exploring women’s experiences and writing. The blog (https://familybloglines.com/ ) eventuated in this co-edited collection. Recently, she’s explored urban space and local place and published McLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to our Senses in a Programmed Environment (Lexington). Marshall McLuhan used to predict we’d live in houses without walls: Are we there yet?

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