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Video Methods: Researching Sociomaterial Points-of-View in Children’s Play Practices with IoToys

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Children’s play practices with Internet-connected toys occur in everyday situations across online and offline domains. The video-ethnographic ‘Points-of-View’ (POV) method presented here provides up-close access to sociomaterial practices between children and digital toys. We draw on a dual camera setup, providing audio-visual data from both ends of the interactions and present examples of empirical data created using this method, followed by analysis and discussion of how these examples provide some much-needed nuances on the subject of digital play. The POV method represents a rigid type of video ethnography in terms of camerawork, aiming at high levels of audio-visual comparability across informants and settings. Lastly, we discuss problems and suggest improvements to the method.

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  1. University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Thomas Enemark Lundtofte

  2. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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Lundtofte, T.E., Johansen, S.L. (2019). Video Methods: Researching Sociomaterial Points-of-View in Children’s Play Practices with IoToys. In: Mascheroni, G., Holloway, D. (eds) The Internet of Toys. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10898-4_12

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