Islamic Cultural Socialization in the Digital Age: Parenting Practices among Millennial Muslim Families

This study aims to analyze digital parenting as a mechanism of Islamic cultural socialization, focusing on how millennial Muslim families negotiate technological engagement, parental authority, and religious values. Employing a qualitative phenomenological approach, the research involved seven millennial Muslim parents in Jatisari Hamlet, Krenceng Village, Kepung District, Kediri Regency, Indonesia, selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, participatory observation, and documentation, and analyzed using the interactive model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña. The findings reveal three interconnected patterns. First, digital parenting involves continuous negotiation of family authority through democratic, authoritarian, and permissive practices, with democratic tendencies predominating. Second, Islamic cultural socialization occurs through the integration of prayer, Qur'anic learning, parental modeling, and religious habituation into household regulations governing children's gadget use. Third, the implementation of religiously informed parenting is shaped by communication, parental workloads, supervision limitations, and children's digital preferences. These findings indicate that Muslim families do not simply accept or reject digital technology but selectively accommodate it within established religious and cultural expectations. Drawing on Berger and Luckmann's social construction perspective, the study conceptualizes these interactions as Islamic Cultural Negotiation in Digital Parenting, encompassing family authority, religious socialization, and social adaptation. This framework contributes to understanding religious cultural continuity as an ongoing process of negotiation rather than unchanged tradition within contemporary Muslim family life.