New technologies offer new ways for families to connect, access ideas and entertainment, and manage the risks faced by children and teens, but they also bring more responsibilities, choices, and challenges. Clark argues that families experience digital and mobile technologies in their children's lives, especially during the preteen and teen years, quite differently depending on whether they are middle class or less advantaged. Based on over ten years of interviews with hundreds of parents and children, The Parent App explores these differences and provides the kind of guidance backed by thorough research that parents today desperately need.

Lynn Schofield Clark is Associate Professor in Media, Film, and Journalism Studies, and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver. Her books include Religion, Media, and the Marketplace (Rutgers University Press, 2007); From Angels to Aliens (Oxford University Press, 2005), and with Stewart M. Hoover, Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media (Columbia University Press, 2002).

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface: The Parent App and the Parent Trap
Acknowledgements
Part I: Digital media and family communication
Ch. 1 Risk, digital media, and parenting in a digital age
Ch. 2 Communication in families: expressive empowerment and respectful connectedness
Ch. 3 How parents are mediating the media in middle class and in less advantaged homes
Ch. 4 Media rich and time poor: The emotion work of parenting in the digital age
Part II: Digital media and youth
Ch. 5 Identity 2.0: Young people and digital and mobile media
Ch. 6 Less advantaged teens, ethnicity, and digital and mobile media: respect, restriction, and reversal
Part III: Cautionary tales
Ch. 7 Cyberbullying girls, helicopter moms, and Internet predators
Ch. 8 Strict parents, gamer high school dropouts, and shunned overachievers
Ch. 9 Conclusion: Parenting in a digital age: The mediatization of family life and the parent app
Bibliography
Appendix A: Methods
Appendix B: Parents, children, and the media landscape: resources
Appendix C: The Family Digital Media contract