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Stories make our experiences memorable over time. In constructing and sharing our personal and communal memories, we move in a reflective manner back and forth between our life-world and our life-stories. Advances in network communications and the growing abundance of personal media recording devices provide new opportunities for collecting, examining and re-imagining our life experiences. This paper describes the 'Media Fabrics Experiment', an online rich-media weblog populated by the day-to-day media messages submitted by a group of participants using camera cellphones. The construction, participant use and activity trends of the weblog are discussed and the impact of this approach for the collection and sharing of everyday story experiences is evaluated.

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cover image ACM Conferences
SRMC '04: Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Story representation, mechanism and context
October 2004
90 pages
ISBN:1581139314
DOI:10.1145/1026633
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  1. co-constructed documentary
  2. distributed story construction
  3. mobile storytelling
  4. video weblogs

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