‘Look it Daddy’

Abstract

Video-mediated technologies enable families with young children to participate in interactions with remote family members. This article examines how a family with young children uses the affordances of video conferencing to 'show' items or themselves. Findings indicate that there are two types of shows in these remote family interactions: those that are designed to receive identification, and those that are designed to receive appreciation and/or assessment. These shows are also often collaboratively produced between a child and her co-present parent. Finally, this paper considers the implications of these shows for our understanding of how families remotely participate in family life. Data are in American English.

Language and the Moving Body: Directive Actions With the Finnish kato “look” in Nature-Related Activities

“…(2) a response from the recipient, often identifying the object; and (3) the child then treating the response as adequate or not (Kidwell and Zimmerman, 2007, p. 593). In addition to the identification of the showed item, showing sequences may also be designed to involve the assessment or evaluation of the target of joint attention (Licoppe, 2017;Searles, 2018). Though this is not always the case, showing sequences involve rather frequently the shower's direct involvement with objects, be it smartphones (e.g., Weilenmann and Larsson, 2001;Aaltonen et al, 2014;Avgustis and Oloff, submitted), clothing (Fasulo and Monzoni, 2009;Licoppe and Tuncer, 2019), or other relevant items (Gerhardt, 2019).…”

Hyperembodiment

“…and interactional engagement (e.g., Martin-Bylund and Stenliden 2020). At the same time, studies find that such media may create positive effects socially, psychologically and practically (e.g., Bradford et al 2012;Searles 2018;Shen et al 2017;Zamir et al 2018;Zouinar and Velkovska 2017), and that they may be used for a number of critical, professional tasks that demand high fidelity representation. Examples of the latter include the successful use of Facetime in medicine and healthcare for surgery preplanning (Armstrong et al 2011), postdischarge surgical care (Gunter et al 2016systematic review), diabetes healthcare (Robinson et al 2016), cytology adequacy assessments (Agarwal et al 2016), loneliness and social isolation within care environments for older people (Zamir et al 2018) and even initial maternal-infant bonding when mothers and newborns are kept apart due to, e.g., caesarean section delivery or peripartum complications (Psychogiou et al 2019).…”