Digital reputation. Family responsibility and digital challenges

We live today in a globalized and hyper-technological society that start a general process of increasing instability, including in the area of family relationships. ICT, domestic and edutainment technologies, and act to initiate family relationships by building and negotiating rules, norms, roles, identities and values, both individual and family. The family with its relational unique stands on the side of real experience, but it cannot stand in opposition to the virtual. In these relational dynamics, it can confirm its authority presence and be able to orient its members to explore new contexts, offering new languages, meanings, and new routes so that the child can develop the ability to know how to consciously construct his project of life, even with the presence of new media. Parents must educate the child’s autonomy and development of critical thinking (Simene, 2021); They are required to present themselves as credible educators, active mediators, able to dialogue with their children in a participatory way about the risks and opportunities offered by the Web. Today’s family challenge consists in the ability to sustain the educational relationship with children in the continuous technological transformations (Amadini, 2011). The family has an important educational role in the responsible and safe use of media.