Baby Mimesis with Touch Screens: Between Materiality and the Individuation Process
In: Human Arenas, Jg. 7 (2024-03-01), Heft 1, S. 84-97
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In this paper, we focus on the mimesis of babies with a screen in a social context. The paper explores how babies interact with the screen interface in a social context as a dynamic process between materiality and individuation. The theoretical framework deals with mimesis, the technological interface, and the individualisation process. The research question is do babies interacting with a smartphone screen activate a mimetic social or material dimension at the service of their individuation? A natural micro-observation was video collected in the home setting. It involved a grandmother over 65 years old and her 14-month-old granddaughter, interacting jointly on a regular smartphone. A non-anthropocentric methodology was used, linking sense-making to the contextualised experience of the body-environment system. Two main topical episodes will be presented as an illustration. Circular redundancy and effective touching are the two dimensions analysed. The analysis of the socio-material baby niche, enacting distributed cognition with the technological interface, opens some discussion toward a postmodern perspective.
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Baby Mimesis with Touch Screens: Between Materiality and the Individuation Process
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Impedovo, Maria Antonietta |
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Zeitschrift: | Human Arenas, Jg. 7 (2024-03-01), Heft 1, S. 84-97 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2024 |
Medientyp: | serialPeriodical |
ISSN: | 2522-5790 (print) ; 2522-5804 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1007/s42087-021-00261-8 |
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