Helga Sadowski

Helga Sadowski serves as a Researcher at Uppsala University's Department of Informatics and Media, focusing on the intersection of digital technologies and family life. Her work examines how information and communication technologies reshape intimate practices, kinship bonds, and rights frameworks within contemporary households.

Her research spans Digital Media and Society, Family Studies, and Children's Rights in Digital Contexts, with particular emphasis on networked individualism's impact on domestic spheres. She investigates how families negotiate screen time, maintain cross-border relationships through digital means, and construct intimacy via technological mediation, revealing tensions between technological possibilities and social constraints.

Analysis of her 2020-2023 publications shows consistent exploration of digital family dynamics through qualitative lenses. Key trends include the material-semiotic construction of family intimacy through ICTs, parental governance of children's digital access, and affective dimensions of platform-mediated relationships. Her work bridges micro-level family practices with macro-level digital society transformations, highlighting how families actively reshape technological systems through everyday use.