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The widespread use of screens is raising many concerns in the public space about the development of children as well as the risky practices of adolescents.\u00a0Social reactions linked to their digital uses mainly focus on risks and dangers.<\/p>\n
Questions of juvenile sexuality are attracting attention, whether it concerns\u00a0the accessibility of pornographic content online<\/a>\u00a0, the exchange and dissemination of sexts or the prostitution of minors.\u00a0On the school side, the emphasis is placed on harassment, with\u00a0cyberbullying<\/a>\u00a0constituting a new category of everyday language and a public problem.\u00a0Finally, for the neurological and cognitive development of children, exposure to screens is the subject of mobilization by public health experts.<\/p>\n Without wanting to ignore the reality of the risks and dangers that screens entail, the aim here is to shift the focus of the public problem towards uses which benefit from less visibility.\u00a0However, in the diversity of technical devices, socio-digital uses fall within a wide spectrum of possibilities.<\/p>\n In view of the concerns publicly displayed today, being interested in their relational interest\u00a0in minors concerned by a child protection measure<\/a>\u00a0can be akin to a form of provocation.\u00a0Without developing an enchanted vision of the uses of these devices, it is important to understand in what and how they allow us to cling to social and family worlds.<\/p>\n Remember that the placement measure for educational assistance separates, in terms of place of living, child, siblings and parent in the name of danger for the minor\u00a0(art. 375 of the civil code)<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0The rights of visitation, accommodation and\u00a0correspondence<\/a>\u00a0awarded by the children’s judge to the parents ensure the maintenance of the family bond despite the separation.<\/p>\n Alongside these rights, and gradually, digital correspondences have developed which are today part of the \u201cordinary\u201d nature of communication practices.\u00a0They open up a field of possibilities in \u201cmaking family\u201d remotely.\u00a0In the trajectories of minors separated from all or part of their entourage, on what registers is the mobilization of socio-digital devices carried out?<\/p>\n The first register is that of an adjustment of links in the socio-digital space.\u00a0Socio-digital devices<\/a>\u00a0offer a scene which accompanies the residential trajectory of the minor (from the family of origin to the host family, from one place of reception to another, etc.) and the relational recompositions in his (or her) space (s) of life (staying in touch with a step-parent, a host sister, etc.).\u00a0Socio-digital relationships may pre-exist or be activated during separation.<\/p>\n At the time of departure or recomposition, equipment or access rights are offered to minors: obtaining a smartphone, opening an account on a social network or even supporting young people on specific devices (exchanges video entry systems for example).<\/p>\n The choice of the mode of communication (see each other in video, send a written message, send a photo, publish a video on the networks, etc.) allows the minor to adjust the devices used to the type of relationship desired on a register ranging from form of continuous co-presence to one-off exchanges, from the mobilization of a multitude of applications to the exclusion of the socio-digital space.\u00a0Technical transposition also recomposes the supports of the relationship and consequently leads it to transform.<\/p>\n In the context of sustained horizontal relationships, some siblings use socio-digital devices to extend the relationship at a distance despite the distance from living spaces and the lack of physical meetings.\u00a0The exchanges are everyday stories which are supported by photos, text messages, telephone or video calls.<\/p>\n Younger people seek advice from elders.\u00a0The older ones seek to control what happens in their absence, to keep an eye on family life, social activities and school work, as told by this young woman of 18, in reception at a children’s center with character. social :Adjusting the long-distance relationship<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n\u201cBy text message, I ask (my sister) if she\u2019s okay.\u00a0If school goes well, if his grades go up.\u00a0If football goes well.\u00a0School isn’t really his thing.\u00a0I try to follow a little.\u00a0But I can’t connect to his thing (ENT).\u00a0So, I ask him.\u00a0And, I know if she’s lying.\u00a0If she’s lying, it’s because she doesn’t want to give me all the grades she got.\u00a0When she\u2019s not lying, she tells me: \u201cIf you want, I\u2019ll show you a photo.\u201d\u00a0She asks me, when she has arguments with her friends, when she wants to buy clothes and everything, I advise her a little.\u00a0When we’re on Skype, she shows me outfits too.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\nFind yourself<\/strong><\/h4>\n