‘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.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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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  -