Online discourse about parenting has grown with the expansion of social media technologies. With a community of “dad bloggers” developing in North America, further investigation into how men write about fatherhood on the Internet is needed. In this article, I present a qualitative analysis of 201 blog posts written by 40 dad bloggers. Adopting a social psychological perspective, I examine how fatherhood is constructed across lines of identity, experience, and ideology. My findings illustrate how dad bloggers reinforce and reshape family discourses in their writing about parental role models, becoming a father, work–family balance, generativity, and “good” and “bad” dads. Social media use is discussed as a part of fathering in everyday life and as a tool to display, promote, and normalize involved fatherhood.

中文翻译：

---

在线做父亲：男性在社交媒体上的父母身份，经历和意识形态

随着社会媒体技术的发展，有关养育子女的在线讨论也越来越多。随着北美“爸爸博客作者”社区的发展，需要进一步研究人们如何在互联网上撰写关于父亲身份的文章。在本文中，我对40位爸爸博客作者撰写的201条博客文章进行了定性分析。我采用社会心理学的观点，研究了如何通过身份，经验和意识形态来构建父亲身份。我的发现表明，爸爸博客作者在撰写有关父母榜样，成为父亲，工作与家庭平衡，成年以及“好”和“坏”父亲的著作时，如何加强和重塑家庭观念。讨论了社交媒体的使用，将其作为日常生活中父亲教养的一部分，并作为展示，促进和规范所涉父亲身份的工具。