Doing Family und Social Media. (Re-)Konstruktionspraktiken von Familie im Spannungsfeld von Vergemeinschaftung und Abgrenzung

The mediatization and virtualization of everyday family live entails that families increasingly resort to media activities such as communication, information, entertainment and presentation practices as a form of doing family. As social media platforms offer a broad variety of services to socialize, they support families in (re-)constructing both their self-concept and their public image through practices of inclusion and integration as well as segregation and exclusion. At the same time these activities underly certain limits resulting from the lack of physical co-presence on the one hand and limitations concerning media-based coping-competence as well as infrastructure on the other.