ABSTRACT
One of the challenges of investigating young children’s meaning making using digital media is the sheer complexity of what happens as children take up devices and play on and around screens. Capturing the entanglement of the social, the material and the embodied is difficult. It is even more difficult to find methods that adequately take account of the affective and ephemeral dimensions of children’s virtual on/off-screen play. In this chapter we explore the use of a process of stacking stories as means of engaging with such practices, of slowing us down, and allowing our own affective engagement to seep into our research accounts. We use a series of stories of children’s use of tablets in an early years setting to illustrate our argument.
