Item

Family facetime

Title (Dublin Core)

Family facetime

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

At the start of lockdown it became clear that my family would not be able to see each other for a while. Most of my family lives in Sydney, some of us live in Melbourne, regional Victoria and Canada. In response, my sister initiated a Coffey Family FaceTime every night at 6:30pm with whoever was available. However, this meant teaching my grandmothers how to use Facebook and how to start a call. More than 8 months later and both my grandmothers still can’t turn their video on without direction and also can’t start Facebook calls. This call kept us together when we felt far away. Celebrating father’s day and birthdays and anniversaries on FaceTime made some moments more memorable and some feel more lonely. Face timing each other was fun until there was a family dinner in Sydney and you couldn’t leave the state. However, there were fun moments, stirring up my parents dogs by yelling “walkies” or “dindins” and then leaving the call, FaceTiming on empty trams and using the weird face effects to confuse my grandmother about who’s camera was whose. The call gave structure to the days spent inside and caused me to talk to my grandmothers and extended family more about the current world events. HIST30060

Date (Dublin Core)

April 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Samantha Coffey

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Samantha Coffey

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

video call screenshot

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Home & Family Life
English Technology
English Social Distance
English Social Media (including Memes)
English Emotion

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

family
facetime
Facebook
family time
connect
virtual
Melbourne
Sydney
grandparent

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

family
facetime
facebook
distance
familytime
stayingconnected

Collection (Dublin Core)

Over 60
Holidays
COVID Birthdays

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

11/10/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/21/2021
07/12/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

04/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Australian Collection

This item was submitted on November 10, 2020 by Samantha Coffey using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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