This article examines forms of family governance of smartphone use in the postdigital condition, moving beyond interpretations grounded in technological instrumentalism. The analysis draws on nationally representative data from the 2025 and 2026 CISF Family Reports of the International Centre for Family Studies (N = 1,600; N = 1,627), considering the presence of family conflicts related to smartphone use, perceptions of problematic digital use, and the adoption of household rules governing smartphone use. By combining these variables, the Parental Smartphone Governance Index was developed, identifying four family profiles: tamers, the unarmed, guides, and free riders. The findings show an increase in both family conflict and perceptions of problematic smartphone use between the two survey waves, while the prevalence of family rules remained substantially stable. Moreover, contexts characterised by higher levels of conflict or by the absence of regulatory practices tend to coexist with broader forms of relational and psychosocial vulnerability, suggesting that difficulties in managing smartphone use should be understood within wider educational contexts. The findings invite us to interpret the smartphone not simply as a device to be controlled, but as part of a sociomaterial assemblage, in which educational regulation is enacted through processes of mediation, negotiation, and shared responsibility among families, schools, and local communities.
Il presente contributo analizza le forme di governance familiare dello smartphone nella condizione postdigitale, superando letture riconducibili allo strumentalismo tecnologico. L'analisi utilizza i dati rappresentativi a livello nazionale dei Cisf Family Report del Centro Internazionale Studi Famiglia2025 e 2026 (N = 1.600; N = 1.627), considerando la presenza di conflitti familiari legati allo smartphone, la percezione di un uso problematico del digitale e l'adozione di regole d'uso. Dall'incrocio di tali variabili è stato costruito l’Indice di governance genitoriale dello smartphone, articolato in quattro profili: domatori, disarmati, accompagnatori e liberi battitori. I risultati evidenziano un aumento della conflittualità e della percezione di problematicità tra le due rilevazioni, a fronte di una sostanziale stabilità nella diffusione delle regole familiari. Inoltre, le si-tuazioni caratterizzate da maggiore conflittualità o dall'assenza di pratiche regolative tendono a coesistere con altre condizioni di fragilità relazionale e psicosociale, suggerendo che le difficoltà nella gestione dello smartphone si collochino in quadri educativi più ampi. I risultati invitano a interpretare lo smartphone non come semplice dispositivo da controllare, ma come parte di un assemblaggio sociomateriale, entro il quale la regolazioneeducativa si realizza attraverso processi di mediazione, negoziazione e corresponsabilità tra famiglia, scuola e territorio.
Pasta, S., La governance genitoriale dello smartphone nelle famiglie postdigitali. Un'analisi a partire dal Family Report del Centro Internazionale Studi Famiglia (Cisf), <<JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNING AND TEACHING>>, 2026; 1 sup (6): 1-11 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/343979]
La governance genitoriale dello smartphone nelle famiglie postdigitali. Un'analisi a partire dal Family Report del Centro Internazionale Studi Famiglia (Cisf)
Pasta, Stefano
2026
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This article examines forms of family governance of smartphone use in the postdigital condition, moving beyond interpretations grounded in technological instrumentalism. The analysis draws on nationally representative data from the 2025 and 2026 CISF Family Reports of the International Centre for Family Studies (N = 1,600; N = 1,627), considering the presence of family conflicts related to smartphone use, perceptions of problematic digital use, and the adoption of household rules governing smartphone use. By combining these variables, the Parental Smartphone Governance Index was developed, identifying four family profiles: tamers, the unarmed, guides, and free riders. The findings show an increase in both family conflict and perceptions of problematic smartphone use between the two survey waves, while the prevalence of family rules remained substantially stable. Moreover, contexts characterised by higher levels of conflict or by the absence of regulatory practices tend to coexist with broader forms of relational and psychosocial vulnerability, suggesting that difficulties in managing smartphone use should be understood within wider educational contexts. The findings invite us to interpret the smartphone not simply as a device to be controlled, but as part of a sociomaterial assemblage, in which educational regulation is enacted through processes of mediation, negotiation, and shared responsibility among families, schools, and local communities.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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