‘I Become More Confident’: Mother Use of Online Platform for Parenting Information
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.039How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Internet, parenting, online, mother
- Abstract
There are an increasing trends that mothers today are turn to Internet to search information about parenting. While in the past, new parents would turn to their own mother or closest family to consult about issues related to how to raise children. Thus the research explores how parents in Indonesia use online platforms to find about parenting related topics. Examine the motivations to search on online platform, how they use the platform and also how the interaction between members on the online community. To explore these mothers’ experiences, a qualitative method is employed. It includes open-ended questionnaires and telephone interview. To enrich the data, observation was done to the online platforms mentioned on the interview. The information were collected, organized, categorized and analyzed based on the emerging themes. The study reveals that parents use Internet platform to find more empirical and reliable information related to parenting. They also try to find support from peers and develop relationship among online community member. The topics emerge on the discussion between parents varies from children tantrum to light topic as such discount from nearest shop. The platform used by mothers to find the information is varies. This online information and online discussion has empower the mother as parent, it increase awareness of the importance of parenting knowledge, increasing confidence related to their parenting journey and help mother to make better decision making.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Syifa Syarifah Alamiyah PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/31 TI - ‘I Become More Confident’: Mother Use of Online Platform for Parenting Information BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Media Conference 2019 (IMC 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 511 EP - 523 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200325.039 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.039 ID - Alamiyah2020 ER -