Kucirkova, Natalia;
Sakr, Mona;
(2017)
Personalized Story-Making on the iPad: Opportunities for Developing the Self and Building Closeness with Others.
In: Burnett, Cathy and Merchant, Guy and Sympson, Alyson and Walsh, Maureen, (eds.)
The Case of the iPad: Mobile Literacies in Education.
(pp. 179-193).
Springer: Singapore.
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Abstract
This chapter presents a participant observation case study of a child aged 5 1/2 years who used the interactive personalized app ‘Mr Glue Stories’ together with her father. The app encouraged the child to personalize a given narrative with text, audio recordings and her own drawings. Building on Bruner’s (1994, 2001) and Lemke’s (2000, 2002) theoretical foundations around self, narrative and text-making, we consider how the various personalization features of the app played a role in developing the child’s sense of self. We also examine the potentials of personalization for facilitating and shaping moments of particular attunement and closeness (‘moments of meeting’; Stern 2000, 2004) between the child and father. Our findings suggest that personalization features in some iPad story-making apps provides unique opportunities for children to explore their experiences of the world and share these with adults close to them.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Personalized Story-Making on the iPad: Opportunities for Developing the Self and Building Closeness with Others |
| ISBN-13: | 978-981-10-4363-5 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-10-4364-2_11 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4364-2_11 |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1546675 |
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