Normative tensions in filial caring for a mother with dementia: A narrative perspective.

This article aims to gain insight in the normative struggles of adult children caring for their ageing mother living with dementia. Two Dutch autobiographical books written by siblings recording their own caregiving experience were analysed using a narrative design. Children appear to understand their normative concerns through six fields of tension. Our analysis shows that filial caregivers describe two distinct approaches to deal with these normative tensions. One approach aims to preserve the child's pre-existing personal beliefs and values, but also causes the child to demonstrate rigid and uncompromising behaviour at odds with the needs of their parent. The other approach is more reflective and flexible, prioritizing the needs of the vulnerable person over previously held values, providing an opportunity for better care. We conclude that caregiving children have to find their way between being faithful to their principles and showing moral flexibility.

A difusão das redes sociais digitais e as novas expressões do eu / The spread of digital social networks and the new expressions of the self

As mudanças sociais e tecnológicas trazidas pela internet e pela difusão, cada vez mais abrangente, das redes sociais digitais inauguraram novos fenômenos narrativos, cujas proporções se irradiam e estabelecem novos padrões discursivos. O presente trabalho tem por escopo a análise das novas formas de narração de si na denominada Era Digital, apresentando o surgimento e evolução dessas novas narrativas e situando-as no presente momento histórico, fortemente marcado por uma nova lógica de consumo, informação e comunicação. Além disso, buscou-se, por meio do estudo, mapear a natureza destas narrativas enquanto relatos autobiográficos, trazendo à tona, além dos contornos da figura do narrador e do objeto narrado, a problematização da superexposição espontânea da imagem do indivíduo nas redes sociais. Por fim, intenta-se discutir acerca dos possíveis limites de tal superexposição, cuja delimitação ainda se encontra em processo de construção, diante das questões éticas que começam a ser levantadas e discutidas.

The social and technological changes brought by the internet and the increasingly wide dissemination of social networks introduced new narrative phenomenona, whose proportions radiate and establish a new discursive pattern. The present work has the scope of analysis about the new way of narrating itself in the so-called Digital Age, demonstrating the emergence and evolution of these new narratives and situating them in the present historical moment, strongly marked by a new logic of consumption, information and communication. In addition, the study sought to map the nature of these narratives as autobiographical reports, bringing to the surface, beyond the contours of the narrator and the narrated object, the problematization of spontaneous overexposure of the individual's image in social networks. Finally, we try to discuss the possible limits of such overexposure, whose delimitation is still in the process of construction, before which ethical issues begin to be raised and discussed.