Yunxia Xue

Yunxia Xue

Oct. 30, 2026

Digital parenting, Technical intermediary, Knowledge authority, Intergenerational cultural transmission.

This article focuses on the systematic reshaping of infant rearing patterns by the digital wave, aiming at revealing the changes of social structure and cultural mechanism caused by the deep embedding of technology into family parenting practice. The research adopts the theoretical analysis path, avoiding empirical data and case description, and discusses it from five dimensions: the reconstruction of parenting context, the transformation of parent-child relationship, the change of knowledge production logic, the adjustment of family gender role and the tension of intergenerational cultural transmission. Digital technology has not only changed the operation form of parenting behavior, but also reconstructed the cognitive framework and responsibility boundary of parenting subjects through algorithm recommendation, data monitoring and platform discourse. The traditional nurturing ecology based on experience inheritance and community support is being replaced by a highly individualized, standardized and commercialized digital logic. In this process, the mother’s care burden is masked by the words of technology “empowerment”, and the grandparents’ experience is systematically marginalized, and the emotional texture of parent-child interaction tends to be thin due to mediation. Without critical reflection on technical design bias and institutional inertia, digital parenting may not only improve efficiency, but also aggravate inequality within families and weaken the continuity and diversity of social and cultural reproduction.

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