This new open access book available here outlines how the digital platforms that mediate so many aspects of commercial and personal life have begun to transform everyday family existence. It presents theory and research methods to enable students and scholars to investigate the changes that platformization has brought to the routines and interactions of family life including intergenerational communication, interpersonal relationships, forms of care and togetherness. The book:

• Situates debates about platformization, mediatization and datafication within a history of change in social organization

• Pursues the significance of datafication within self-understandings family narrative

• Summarizes current state of knowledge about the platformization of the family

The book emerged from a seminar jointly funded by the Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe project, the Norwegian Research Council and The Australian Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Digital Child held in Oslo May 2023.