During the period December to February 2022 new interviews with families spread across Denmark has been conducted for the research project Childhood, Intimacy and Surveillance Practices (ChIP). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the interviews were conducted online. A setting that has been necessary but also methodologically appropriate as the primary aim has been to investigate how COVID-19 has affected the use of digital technologies in family life.

Furthermore, it has been a priority to interview families with teenagers living at home to get their opinions on rules, practices and tensions regarding the use of technologies in their family. By talking to the teenagers and their parents we have gained insights into the ways teenagers engage in their parents’ surveillance practices and how these practices are constantly negotiated, resisted and subverted.

The ChIP project started back in 2016 and investigates the use of surveillance and tracking technologies in intimate contexts of everyday life focusing on Danish families. You can find more information about the project here.