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Admixed portrait: design to understand Facebook portrayals in new parenthood

Durrant, Abigail; Kirk, David S.; Trujillo-Pisanty, Diego; Martindale, Sarah

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Authors

Abigail Durrant

David S. Kirk

Diego Trujillo-Pisanty

SARAH MARTINDALE Sarah.Martindale@nottingham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor of Digital Innovation in The Creative Industries



Abstract

We report on a design-led study of the photographic representation of self and family on Facebook during and after becoming parents for the first time. Our experience-centered, research-through-design study engaged eight participants across five UK homes, in a month-long deployment of a prototype technology -- a design research artifact, Admixed Portrait, that served to prompt participant reflection on first-time parenthood. In addition to pre- and post-deployment interviews, participants kept diaries capturing personal reflections during the deployment, on daily social media use and interactions with Admixed. Our qualitative insights on social media representations of transitional experience and identity for new parents, reveal how their online 'photowork' related to self-expression and social functioning. We contribute design considerations for developing tools to support photographic expression in social media use, and methodological insights about design-led inquiry for understanding transitional experiences.

Citation

Durrant, A., Kirk, D. S., Trujillo-Pisanty, D., & Martindale, S. (2018). Admixed portrait: design to understand Facebook portrayals in new parenthood. In CHI '18: proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173586

Presentation Conference Type Edited Proceedings
Conference Name 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Start Date Apr 21, 2018
End Date Apr 26, 2018
Acceptance Date Nov 1, 2018
Publication Date Apr 19, 2018
Deposit Date Jan 30, 2019
Publicly Available Date Jan 31, 2019
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 1–14
Book Title CHI '18: proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ISBN 9781450356206
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173586
Keywords Parenthood; Facebook; Photograph; Identity transition; Research through design
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1218753
Publisher URL https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3173574.3173586
Contract Date Jan 31, 2019

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