Digital Storytelling - Form and Content

This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore the uses of Digital Storytelling, which places the greatest possible emphasis on the voice of the storyteller. Case studies are used as a platform to investigate questions of concept, theory and practice, and to shine an interrogative light on this emergent form of participatory media. The collection examines the creative and academic roots of Digital Storytelling before drawing on a range of international examples to consider the way in which the practice has established itself and evolved in different settings across the world.

List of contents

1. Form and Content in Digital Storytelling: An Introduction.- 2. Practice matters in Digital Storytelling by Joe Lambert.- 3. My Story from Kibera by Marita Rainbird.- 4. One Million Life Stories by Carol Misoreli.- 5. Collaborating With Other Artforms. History in Our Hands: A Long-Term Storytelling Project With Older People by Alex Henry.- 6. Digital Storytelling in Multicultural Singapore by Angeline Koh.- 7. Digital Storytelling With Users and Survivors of the UK Mental Health System by Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner.- 8. Digital Storytelling for women's wellbeing in Turkey by Burcu Simsek.- 9. Going Beyond "the moment": Towards Making the "Preferably Unheard" Malaysian Sexual Minorities Heard by Angela M. Kuga Thas.- 10. The afterlife of Capture Wales:  digital stories and their listening publics by Nicole Matthews and Karen Lewis.- 11. The ethics, aesthetics and practical politics of ownership in co-creative media by Christina Spurgeon.- 12. From the Pre-Story Space: A Proposal of a Story Weaving Method for Digital Storytelling by Akiko Ogawa and Yuko Tsuchiya.- 13. Digital stories as tools for advocacy by Camelia Crisan and Dumitru Bortun.- 14. Reconceptualising Digital Storytelling:  Thinking through Audiovisual Inquiry by Darcy Alexander.- 15. Making emotional and social influence:  Digital storytelling and the cultivation of creative influence by Chloë Brushwood Rose.- 16. Smiling or Smiting?  - Selves, states and stories in the constitution of polities by John Hartley.- 17. Therapy, democracy and the creative practice of digital storytelling by Nancy Thumim.

About the author

Mark Dunford is an academic and researcher who has held senior roles in a number of UK Universities including University of Brighton, Goldsmiths and University of East London where he was an Associate Dean in the School of Arts and Digital Industries.  

Tricia Jenkins is a researcher and digital storytelling facilitator who also works with Insightshare Participatory Video company and is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. 

In 2008, Mark and Tricia established DigiTales, a research company specialising in Digital Storytelling and participatory media. The company is hosted by Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Summary

This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore the uses of Digital Storytelling, which places the greatest possible emphasis on the voice of the storyteller.

Additional text

“The reader—whether new to digital storytelling or a seasoned practitioner—comes away with a sense of possibilities and a deeper appreciation for digital storytelling as a means for amplifying voice and inspiring civic engagement.” (Heather Gerhart, Storytelling, Self, Society, Vol. 16 (2), 2020)
“The most compelling aspects of this volume are the stories … . The stories presented in each of these chapters are rather remarkable and, indeed, powerful. Anyone interested in modern media, narrative, social activism, communication studies, film, as well as those versed in DS scholarship, will find this a compelling read.” (Katherine Daley-Bailey, Reflective Teaching, May, 2018)

“Digital Storytelling is relevant for diverse audiences. Above all, it will interest practitioners as the book showcases a number of usage scenarios and applications, while also fostering deeper reflection on practice. … For educators involved with qualitative methodologies as well as in the creative studies fields, DS might offer an interesting outlet to explore new ways of working with students to make stories together.” (Lavinia Marin, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, May, 2018)

Report

"The reader-whether new to digital storytelling or a seasoned practitioner-comes away with a sense of possibilities and a deeper appreciation for digital storytelling as a means for amplifying voice and inspiring civic engagement." (Heather Gerhart, Storytelling, Self, Society, Vol. 16 (2), 2020)
"The most compelling aspects of this volume are the stories ... . The stories presented in each of these chapters are rather remarkable and, indeed, powerful. Anyone interested in modern media, narrative, social activism, communication studies, film, as well as those versed in DS scholarship, will find this a compelling read." (Katherine Daley-Bailey, Reflective Teaching, May, 2018)

"Digital Storytelling is relevant for diverse audiences. Above all, it will interest practitioners as the book showcases a number of usage scenarios and applications, while also fostering deeper reflection on practice. ... For educators involved with qualitative methodologies as well as in the creative studies fields, DS might offer an interesting outlet to explore new ways of working with students to make stories together." (Lavinia Marin, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, May, 2018)

Product details

• Assisted by: Mar Dunford (Editor), Mark Dunford (Editor), Jenkins (Editor), Jenkins (Editor), Tricia Jenkins (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9781137591517
• ISBN: 978-1-137-59151-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 218 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 448 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 244 p. 14 illus.
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science