Publicatie

“Shared care” through instant messaging updates in youth care; an interaction analysis (Post-print)

In this paper we present an analysis of WhatsApp interactions in youth care. In family-style group care young people temporarily live in the family of professional foster parents (PFP), while they regularly visit their birth parents (BPs). Our data consist of instant messaging conversations between 11 pairs of PFPs and BPs during two months. Using Conversation Analysis (CA), we focused on the social interaction between BPs and PFPs, achieved in and through multi-modally constructed sequences of updates - responses. Updates are used by BPs in the context of the transfer from the child from/to the PFP to display responsibility towards the PFP and for the child. Also, PFPs use updates to provide BPs quasi primary access to the experiences of the child, centrally by sending images. Across these functions, we observe specific social actions of BPs and PFPs; while BPs work to display responsibility, PFPs subtly empower BPs as parents.

Auteur(s)

Keun Young Sliedrecht, Wyke Stommel, Ellen Schep

Publicatietype

Artikel

Trefwoorden

WhatsApp, Foster care, Youth care, Updates, Conversation analysis

Taal

Engels

Gepubliceerd in

Qualitative Social Work

DOI

10.1177/14733250221146739

Gepubliceerd op datum

2022-12-22