Sharenting: Ebeveynler Çocuklarının Fotoğraflarını Sosyal Medyada Neden Paylaşır?

Year 2022, Volume: 12 Issue: 3, 2911 - 2928, 30.11.2022

Şule Baştemur Mustafa Alperen Kurşuncu

https://doi.org/10.48146/odusobiad.1137855

Abstract

Çocukların fotoğraflarının ebeveynleri tarafından sosyal medyada paylaşılması anlamına gelen sharenting, son yıllarda ruh sağlığı alanında önemli ve hassas bir konu olarak ele alınmaya başlanmıştır. Çocukların fotoğrafları, çocuk doğmadan önce bile sosyal medyada sıklıkla paylaşılmaktadır. Annelerin neden çocuklarının fotoğraflarını sosyal medyada paylaştığı ve bu paylaşımların olası sonuçları ise merak konusudur. Ebeveynleri çocuklarının fotoğraflarını sosyal medyada paylaşmaya motive eden çeşitli sebepler bulunmaktadır. Bu derleme çalışmasında, literatürde sıklıkla öne çıkan nedenlerin yanı sıra, shatentingin kuramsal boyutu olan benlik sunumu teorisi ve benliğin sınıflandırılması kuramı, çocuklar açısından sharenting, sharentingin hukuki süreci ve sosyal/duygusal ve psikolojik destek ihtiyaçları, sharentingi bir meslek olarak görme veya para kazanma, dijital kibir ve narsist özellikler, duygu ve düşünceleri ifade etme aracı olarak görme gibi sharentingin nedenleri de incelenmiştir. Ayrıca sharentingin tehlikeli tarafları tartışılmış ve ebeveynlere öneriler verilmiştir.

Keywords

çocuk güvenliği, dijital zararlar, sharenting, sosyal medya, sharenting ebeveynler

Sharenting: Why Parents Share Their Children’ Photos on Social Media?

Abstract

Sharenting, which means sharing the photos of children on social media by their parents, has started to be considered as an important and sensitive issue in the field of mental health in recent years. Photographs of children are often shared on social media, even before the child is born. Why mothers share photos of their children on social media and possible outcomes of sharenting is a matter of curiosity. There are various reasons that motivates parents to share photos of their children in social media. In this review study, besides the reasons that are frequently prominent in the literature, self-presentation theory and self-categorization theory, which is the theoretical side of the sharenting, sharenting from the in the perspective of children, legal process, and reasons for sharenting such as social/emotional and psychological support needs, seeing sharenting as a profession or earning money, digital arrogance and narcissistic traits, expressing emotions and thoughts also examined. Dark side of sharenting and suggestion to parents also discussed.

Keywords

children safety, digital harms, sharenting, social media, sharenting parents

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