Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Children Digital StoryTelling
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Gender is a major variable affecting identity and life opportunities from a young age. Our research aims to explore the persistence of gender stereotypes in multimedia stories created by children with the final purpose of attenuating this stereotypical thinking by proposing new processes and tools. The paper investigates the following research question: how can gender stereotypes be detected in the stories produced by children with Digital StoryTelling? We addressed this issue by analyzing 23 multimedia stories created by 83 children, aged 11-12 years. The main contribution of our work is an evaluation methodology to detect gender stereotypes.
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A substantial body of HCI studies focuses on supporting storytelling and storymaking for children and families outside the settings of expressive arts therapy.
“Nonetheless, outside the settings of expressive arts therapy, a substantial body of studies focus on supporting storytelling and storymaking for children and families [23, 83, 96, 134].”
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- Authors
- Rubegni, E., Landoni, M., De Angeli, A., & Jaccheri, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Lincoln (GB)
- Università della Svizzera italiana (CH)
- Free University of Bozen, Bolzano, Italy
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2019-06-12
- Pages
- 386-393
- OpenAlex
- W2948695845
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5
- FWCI
- 18.47
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC) (publishedVersion)
- Lincoln Repository (University of Lincoln) (acceptedVersion)
- Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
- NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Open Research (University of Surrey) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › Digital Storytelling and Education
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Technology in Education
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Keywords
- gender stereotypes, digital storytelling, children, gender identity, evaluation methodology
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