Abstract The implicit ambiguity of surveillance as both care and control has been a key theoretical issue in social science research on surveillance practices and technologies. This article addresses this ambiguity empirically by examining how parents using – or not using – location-tracking apps to monitor their children negotiate this tension. Drawing on 17 semistructured interviews conducted with parents in different regions of Denmark, we examine the struggles of these parents to fit this technology into their world and to reconcile their uses with ideals of trust, privacy, and good parenting. By highlighting how users and non-users perceive and negotiate the controlling affordances of tracking apps, we emphasise the potential for negotiation, contestation, and resistance raised by this technology, and the contingent nature of its appropriation and effects. Thereby, it brings nuances to techno-pessimistic accounts of child tracking and calls for further empirical studies examining how these technologies are experienced in practice.

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监视作为照顾和控制的模糊性：丹麦父母在驯化位置跟踪应用程序中的挣扎

摘要 监视作为照顾和控制的隐含模糊性一直是社会科学研究监视实践和技术的关键理论问题。本文通过研究父母如何使用（或不使用）位置跟踪应用程序来监控他们的孩子来解决这种紧张关系，以经验性的方式解决了这种模糊性。通过对丹麦不同地区的父母进行的 17 次半结构化访谈，我们研究了这些父母为将这项技术融入他们的世界以及将他们的使用与信任、隐私和良好育儿的理想相协调而进行的斗争。通过强调用户和非用户如何感知和协商跟踪应用程序的控制功能，我们强调了该技术引发的协商、竞争和阻力的潜力，以及其占用和影响的偶然性。因此，它为对儿童跟踪的技术悲观描述带来了细微差别，并呼吁进行进一步的实证研究，研究这些技术在实践中是如何被体验的。