PlatFams Short Research Paper 2023

How are digital platforms embedded in the lives and practices of modern families? ‘Platforming Families: Tracing digital transformations in everyday life across generations (PlatFAMs)’ researches three generation families (children, parents, grandparents) in five European countries (Estonia, Norway, Romania, Spain, UK).

We aim to reveal how families are navigating and negotiating their relationships using pervasive, powerful, commercial and data-driven digital platforms such as WhatsApp, Amazon, Netflix, Roblox and many more. Does ‘platformisation’ change how families communicate, learn, participate, shop and care for each other? Or how they imagine and construct their shared future?