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Domesticating Smartphone in Distance: Family Politics and Technological Governance in Chinese Left-Behind Children's Families During COVID-19

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Mobile Media & Communication

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Abstract

Mobile Media & Communication, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 259-277, May 2026.
The societal anxiety over children's smartphone addiction during the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted parents of left-behind children in China to adopt various strategies for remotely domesticating smartphones. This paper advances domestication theory and ...