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      See the Apple of My Eye: Baby Storytelling in Social Space

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      People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology (HCI)
      Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology
      1 - 5 September 2009
      Media-sharing, narratives, baby stories, mothers, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC).
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            People use media-sharing web sites to document their lives and those of their children for maintaining and strengthening social ties with people living away. It is clear then that people can and like to create narratives as a form of expression. This study presents an analysis of the characteristics and type of baby stories written by young mothers. Nine mothers from Malaysia living in the UK participated in the study. The participants used a variety of media-sharing web sites to prepare and share the narratives. Most of them (seven) used photo-sharing web sites (Fotopages or Flickr), two used text-based blogs (Blogger). Two of them also uploaded videos of their babies in content sharing sites (YouTube). Within the period of three months, we identified 166 stories created, with 94 percent of them focusing on their baby. The stories present a number of topics such as skills demonstrations, outings, domestic activities, and social events. Based on the analysis of the data and interviews with participants, we found a significant positive correlation between the type of story and the type of media used. The result also shows there was a significant positive relationship between the type of story and the baby’s age.

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            Conference
            September 2009
            September 2009
            : 238-243
            Affiliations
            [0001]University of Malaya

            Faculty of Computer Science & IT

            Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
            [0002]University of Manchester

            Manchester Business School

            Manchester, United Kingdom
            [0003]University of California Santa Cruz

            Computer Engineering

            Santa Cruz CA 95064, USA
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/HCI2009.28
            a406de62-8d74-4de0-ab09-68bba55a5b00
            © N. Jomhari et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology, Churchill College Cambridge, UK

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            People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology
            HCI
            Churchill College Cambridge, UK
            1 - 5 September 2009
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/HCI2009.28
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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Media-sharing,mothers,narratives,Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC).,baby stories

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