Everyday cinema

ABSTRACT

Stories make our experiences memorable over time. In constructing and sharing our personal and communal memories, we move in a reflective manner back and forth between our life-world and our life-stories. Advances in network communications and the growing abundance of personal media recording devices provide new opportunities for collecting, examining and re-imagining our life experiences. This paper describes the 'Media Fabrics Experiment', an online rich-media weblog populated by the day-to-day media messages submitted by a group of participants using camera cellphones. The construction, participant use and activity trends of the weblog are discussed and the impact of this approach for the collection and sharing of everyday story experiences is evaluated.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces
          Subjects: Collaborative computing

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces
          Subjects: Computer-supported cooperative work; Web-based interaction
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia
          Subjects: Architectures; Navigation

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Multi/mixed media; Desktop publishing

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
co-constructed documentary, distributed story construction, mobile storytelling, video weblogs