TY - GEN
T1 - Thanks for your interest in our facebook group, but it's only for dads:" social roles of Stay-at-Home dads
AU - Ammari, Tawfiq
AU - Schoenebeck, Sarita
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the National Science Foundation (HCC 1318143) for support. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/2/27
Y1 - 2016/2/27
N2 - The number of stay-at-home dads (SAHDs) in the U.S. has risen dramatically over the past 30 years. Despite gaining social acceptability, SAHDs still experience isolation and judgment in their offline environments. This research explores how SAHDs use the Internet and social media related to their roles as fathers. We conducted interviews with 18 SAHDs about their families, their identities, and their social experiences. We find that they turn to social media to gain social support and overcome isolation they experience offline. However, they engage in strategic selfdisclosure on particular platforms to avoid judgment related to being SAHDs. They rely on online platforms to give off both traditionally feminine and masculine impressions-as loving caregivers of their children while simultaneously as do-it-yourself men who make things around the house. Through creating Facebook groups and using anonymous social media sites, SAHDs create multidimensional social networks that allow them to cope better with the role change. We reflect on the evolving roles of SAHDs in society, and put forth an argument for greater support for diverse kinds of parenting online.
AB - The number of stay-at-home dads (SAHDs) in the U.S. has risen dramatically over the past 30 years. Despite gaining social acceptability, SAHDs still experience isolation and judgment in their offline environments. This research explores how SAHDs use the Internet and social media related to their roles as fathers. We conducted interviews with 18 SAHDs about their families, their identities, and their social experiences. We find that they turn to social media to gain social support and overcome isolation they experience offline. However, they engage in strategic selfdisclosure on particular platforms to avoid judgment related to being SAHDs. They rely on online platforms to give off both traditionally feminine and masculine impressions-as loving caregivers of their children while simultaneously as do-it-yourself men who make things around the house. Through creating Facebook groups and using anonymous social media sites, SAHDs create multidimensional social networks that allow them to cope better with the role change. We reflect on the evolving roles of SAHDs in society, and put forth an argument for greater support for diverse kinds of parenting online.
KW - Role theory
KW - Self-presentation
KW - Social media
KW - Social network sites
KW - Stay-at-home dads
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U2 - 10.1145/2818048.2819927
DO - 10.1145/2818048.2819927
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84963582650
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 1363
EP - 1375
BT - Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016
Y2 - 27 February 2016 through 2 March 2016
ER -