Creative Narrations co-director Natasha Freidus has a chapter in a new compilation of social change storytelling initiatives, Telling Stories to Change the World (eds. Solinger, Fox, and Irani). Her essay, “Our Stories, Their Decisions: a lesson in voter education” discusses how digital stories can be a powerful voter engagement tool. View the stories, take a [...]
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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 [...]
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”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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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? “To tell others who you are can play an important role in the contruction of an agentive self.” The point is taken from the paper [...]
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