Children, multimedia content and technological artefacts: An exploratory study using text analysis tools
Interactive Technology and Smart Education
ISSN: 1741-5659
Article publication date: 21 September 2015
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the user experience of young people with video content accessed through different technological artefacts.
Design/methodology/approach
To this purpose, an essay has been assigned to the pupils of two lower secondary school classes (mean age 12 years) to know their diverse types of usage of multimedia content in their everyday lives. These compositions have been analysed using a plurality of text analysis tools to find out both the preferred artefacts and their mutual relationships.
Findings
The results are here presented giving emphasis to qualitative and methodological aspects.
Practical implications
The analysis is to be intended as a preliminary field research study mainly oriented to testing the visualization power of the selected technical tools, primarily network text analysis, in the context of children exposure to video content made available by today’s information and communication technologies.
Originality/value
The originality of the paper is characterized by methods used to analyse quantitative data derived from textual compositions of children.
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Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank teacher Monica Melloni, headmaster’s assistant of the comprehensive institute “Giorgio Perlasca”, and teacher Lucia Megli.
Citation
Mazzoni, E., Nicolò, E. and Sapio, B. (2015), "Children, multimedia content and technological artefacts: An exploratory study using text analysis tools", Interactive Technology and Smart Education, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 202-221. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITSE-04-2015-0002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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