{"id":65751,"date":"2020-05-11T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=65751"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:08","slug":"pomerantz-tiktok-mama-how-i-bonded-with-my-tween-in-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/05\/pomerantz-tiktok-mama-how-i-bonded-with-my-tween-in-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"POMERANTZ: TikTok Mama: How I bonded with my tween in isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shauna Pomerantz, Associate Professor of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/first-person\/article-tiktok-mama-how-i-bonded-with-my-teen-in-isolation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/em> about research she and her 11-year-old daughter are conducting using the web-based app TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy 11-year-old daughter, Miriam, cradles her cellphone like a newborn. Her iPhone, purchased second-hand with carefully saved birthday and babysitting money, is her perpetual companion. But during the social isolation brought on by a pandemic, it has also become her salvation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018What are you doing?\u2019 I ask when I see her curled up on the couch. I already know the answer. \u2018Watching TikToks,\u2019 she murmurs dreamily. TikTok is her favourite activity once home-schooling has wrapped up for the day and a swath of free time has opened for everyone in the house. She feels most cheered, entertained and safe in the TikTok universe. \u2018Why don\u2019t you read a book?\u2019 I suggest. \u2018Mom,\u2019 she sighs, \u2018everything is so depressing, I need TikTok. I need to escape into that world right now.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Who could blame her? I want to escape, too.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/first-person\/article-tiktok-mama-how-i-bonded-with-my-teen-in-isolation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shauna Pomerantz, Associate Professor of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University , had a piece recently published in The Globe and Mail about research she and her 11-year-old daughter are conducting using the web-based app TikTok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[45,8485,522,4211,486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65754,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65751\/revisions\/65754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}