See John Hartley in Denmark

Right now, I would love to be a Ph.d. student in the DREAM research consortium, since John Hartley will be giving a speak about Digital content creation: educational options and challenges on the second international DREAM conference (a conference for Ph.D students only). John Hartley is the keynote speaker on the DREAM conference: Digital Content [...]

No. 6: D.U.S.T.Y.

How can a digital storytelling project be formed? In this series we present projects from around the world to give you inspiration to your work with digital storytelling. In the line of digital storytelling projects, we hereby present one of the most famous dealing with adolescents, the so-called D.U.S.T.Y. program. “Tools are intrinsic to social [...]

No. 5: Digital Faith Storytelling

How can a digital storytelling project be formed? In this series we present projects from around the world to give you inspiration to your work with digital storytelling. Several projects about digital storytelling have evolved since Joe Lambert and Dana Atchley first came up with the idea of making workshops with digital stories in 1993. [...]

No. 4: ACMI

In the line of projects working with digital storytelling we will present the The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). In a new cultural institution dedicated to the moving image, ACMI, digital storytelling is playing a key role in the center’s activities and have done it since the start in 2002. ACMI is working [...]

No. 3: Capture Wales and We Shall Remain

How can a digital storytelling project be formed? In this series we present projects from around the world to give you inspiration to your work with digital storytelling. Several projects about digital storytelling have evolved since Joe Lambert and Dana Atchley first came up with the idea of making workshops with digital stories in 1993. [...]

No. 2: Digital Clubhouse

How can a digital storytelling project be formed? In this series we present projects from around the world to give you inspiration to your work with digital storytelling. Several projects about digital storytelling have evolved since Joe Lambert and Dana Atchley first came up with the idea of making workshops with digital stories in 1993. [...]

No. 1: Father of Digital Stories: Center for Digital Storytelling

How can a digital storytelling project be formed? In this series we present projects from around the world to give you inspiration to your work with digital storytelling. Center for Digital Storytelling is the most important institution in the movement and practice of digital storytelling. Center for Digital Storytelling is to where it all started. [...]

Definitions of digital storytelling

When we talk about digital storytelling two definitions comes to my mind. In general, I tend to describe it as a movement and practice, however I recently encountered a more detailed description of the fields of digital storytelling. Professor John Hartley from Queensland University of Technology in Australia outlines the following elements as parts of [...]

The beginning of digital storytelling

”Cultural anthropologist Gregory Bateson was asked in the 1950s if he believed that computer artificial intelligence was possible. He responded that he did not know, but that he believed when you would ask a computer a yes-or-no question and it responded with “that reminds me of a story” you would be close.” (Lambert, 2002:21) As [...]

What is it good for? – Power of Multimodality (No.2)

Why make digital storytelling? What are the benefits? We are trying to find theoretical and practical answers in this serie, where we ask the question: what is it good for? “In our experience, digital stories have wide appeal among children, in part simply because they are multimodal and digital, and thereby allow individuals those compositional [...]