http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41842 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:43:46 GMT 2026-04-13T21:43:46Z https://dspace.uni.lodz.pl:443/xmlui/bitstream/id/bd20a502-9711-444b-a8d8-611328355a54/ http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41842 http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41848 Parental Technology Governance: Teenagers’ Understandings and Responses to Parental Digital Mediation Adorjan, Michael; Ricciardelli, Rosemary; Saleh, Tina Research on parental mediation of children’s online engagements situate historically longstanding anxieties within the dynamics of present-day information communications technologies (i.e., concerns over new “cyber risks,” as well as opportunities). Yet, there remains a lack of emphasis on children’s reactions to and experiences with parental strategies and responses. In the current article, we highlight research involving semi-structured focus groups (n=35) with Canadian teenagers (n=115). We highlight themes directly related to parental digital mediation, including the role of ICTs in driving addictive behaviors, social connection, differences in parental responses between sons and daughters, and differences concerning age and birth order. Disrupting cultural discourses of young people who lack agency in relation to their use of ICTs, our discussions with teens reveal qualified support, even degrees of sympathy, for parental efforts to restrict access and use of digital technologies, but illuminate multifaceted reasons for resistance: their vital role not only for social connection but access to crucial information and knowledge. Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41848 2022-04-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41847 Biographical Work as a Mechanism of Dealing with Precarity and Precariousness Burski, Jacek; Mrozowicki, Adam; Drabina-Różewicz, Aleksandra; Krasowska, Agata The article aims to explore the relationship between biographical work and the strategies of managing precarity (low-paid and unstable employment) and precariousness (insecurity and instability of life conditions in general) in Poland’s new capitalism. Poland witnessed the rise of precarity during the entire capitalist transformation after 1989, while the expansion of precarious, temporary, and non-standard employment accelerated in the first two decades of the 21st century. The main theoretical framework of the article is based on concepts deriving from biographical sociology and was elaborated during a joint workshop with German biographical researcher, Fritz Schütze, within the PREWORK project. The case of a young female shop assistant, Helena, with a difficult family and work background was selected from a larger sample of 63 biographical narrative interviews with precarious young workers in Poland. Based on the case study and the broader context of the research project, it is argued that biographical work may have the potential for questioning and challenging precarity; yet, without necessary biographical and social resources, such a process is hard to be completed. As a result, the paper questions the macrosocial vision of “precariat” as the “class in-the-making” and instead offers a detailed account of the microsocial ways of dealing with precarity by a representative of the most disadvantaged group of precarious young workers. Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41847 2022-04-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41846 Alfred Schütz Revisited: Social Exclusion of Refugees in Brandenburg Zalewski, Ingmar For refugees, the transition from their home to the host society is especially challenging. In particular, their situation shortly after arrival entails the risk of social exclusion. Based on two case studies, this article reconstructs experiences of exclusion within the integration processes of Cameroonian refugee men and unaccompanied minors in the region of Brandenburg, Germany. What connects the studies are the existential threats of being forced to wait due to having an unclear future and a pattern of being unable to refer to (positive) lived experiences in the local environment. The article approaches these dynamics by applying Alfred Schütz as a helpful analytical heuristic to the findings. The possibilities and pitfalls of the deployed Schützean framework are highlighted considering current methodological developments in the field. Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41846 2022-04-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41845 Whiteness and the Black Fan Imagination: Making Meaning of Whiteness within the Geographies of NASCAR Vadeboncoeur, Joshua D. This article places its attention on how the spatial boundaries, practices, and separations—as structured by whiteness—impact the contestation and negotiation of meaning-making processes in the production and consumption of NASCAR space(s) for Black fans. It was through that vantage point that the participants demonstrated a nuanced understanding of whiteness, particularly through an awareness of NASCAR as a White space, how to effectively navigate such a White space, and a contextualization of more recent enactments of whiteness within these spaces. To explore and define Black individuals’ racialized experiences and movements as NASCAR fans from their perspective, this article uses a qualitative approach as grounded in narrative inquiry. Thus, findings demonstrate how Black fans make meaning of whiteness within the geographies of NASCAR, which advances theoretical understandings of how whiteness is perceived and represented in the Black imagination. Informed by Southern regional identity and the navigation of White space, these representations of whiteness as exclusive, fearful, and possessive are made salient through NASCAR’s attachment to racialized cultural values. Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41845 2022-04-30T00:00:00Z