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

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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N. Jomhari

V. M. Gonzalez

S. H. Kurniawan

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Publication date: September 2009

Publication date (Print): September 2009

Pages: 238-243

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[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

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2009.28

SO-VID: a406de62-8d74-4de0-ab09-68bba55a5b00

Copyright statement: © 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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Conference name: People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology

Conference acronym: HCI

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Conference location: Churchill College Cambridge, UK

Conference date: 1 - 5 September 2009

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology

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

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