Sharenting: A systematic review of the empirical literature
A systematic review of the empirical literature on sharenting — the practice of parents sharing information, images, and videos of their children on social media. Synthesising studies across methods and regions, it maps how widespread the practice has become, the motivations and tensions parents report, the privacy and consent concerns it raises, and — notably — how rarely the children themselves have been asked. This review is the grounding source for The Sharenting Project: the questions it leaves open are the ones our study sets out to measure at scale.
This systematic review is the foundation the project builds on. It establishes the state of the field — what has been measured, by whom, and with which methods — and surfaces the gaps this study is designed to address: the dominance of small qualitative studies, the scarcity of large quantitative evidence, and the near-total absence of the children’s own perspectives.