Mobile Motherhood: Assessing the Implications of Social Media Use and Intensive Mothering from a Response-Based Approach

Abstract

The capstone explores the oppressive confines of intensive mothering in the age of social media. The literature review examines three themes: the social construction of motherhood, mental health in matrescence; and motherhood and social media. The project explored these themes through a response-based contextual analysis, noting the importance of understanding mothers' context, social settings, responses/acts of resistance to oppression, social responses of networks and mothers' responses to social responses. The capstone ends with recommendations for applied practice in the counselling field and suggestions for further research