Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape.
- Covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling youth movement, participatory public history, audience reception, videoblogging and microdocumentary
- Pinpoints who is telling what stories where, on what terms, and what they look and sound like
- Explores the boundaries of digital storytelling from China and Brazil to Western Europe and Australia
Recenzijas
"There can be no doubt that this book is important in fostering understanding of DST's potential and it deserves many readers among students, researchers and practitioners." (Seminar.net, July 2010)
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
Acknowledgments x
Notes on Contributors xii
Part I What Is Digital Storytelling? 1
1 Computational Power Meets Human Contact 3
John Hartley and Kelly McWilliam
2 TV Stories: From Representation to Productivity 16
John Hartley
3 The Global Diffusion of a Community Media Practice: Digital Storytelling
Online 37
Kelly McWilliam
Part II Foundational Practices 77
4 Where It All Started: The Center for Digital Storytelling in California
79
Joe Lambert
5 Capture Wales: The BBC Digital Storytelling Project 91
Daniel Meadows and Jenny Kidd
6 Digital Storytelling at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image 118
Helen Simondson
7 Radio Storytelling and Beyond 124
Marie Crook
Part III Digital Storytelling Around the World 129
8 Narrating Euro-African Life in Digital Space 131
Sissy Helff and Julie Woletz
9 Developing Digital Storytelling in Brazil 144
Margaret Anne Clarke
10 Digital Storytelling as Participatory Public History in Australia 155
Jean Burgess and Helen Klaebe
11 Finding a Voice: Participatory Development in Southeast Asia 167
Jo Tacchi
12 The Matrices of Digital Storytelling: Examples from Scandinavia 176
Knut Lundby
13 Digital Storytelling in Belgium: Power and Participation 188
Nico Carpentier
14 Exploring Self-representations in Wales and London: Tension in the Text
205
Nancy Thumim
Part IV Emergent Practices 219
15 Digital Storytelling as Play: The Tale of Tales 221
Maria Chatzichristodoulou
16 Commercialization and Digital Storytelling in China 230
Wu Qiongli
17 Digital Storytelling with Youth: Whose Agenda Is It? 245
Lora Taub-Pervizpour
18 Digital Storytelling in Education: An Emerging Institutional Technology?
252
Patrick Lowenthal
19 Digital Storytelling in Organizations: Syntax and Skills 260
Lisa Dush
20 Beyond Individual Expression: Working with Cultural Institutions 269
Jerry Watkins and Angelina Russo
References 279
Index 300
John Hartley is Distinguished Professor and ARC Federation Fellow at Queensland University of Technology, and Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative industries and Innovation. He is the author of Television Truths (Wiley-Blackwell 2008) and A Short History of Cultural Studies (2003), and editor of Creative Industries (Wiley-Blackwell 2005). He is Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Kelly McWilliam is an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Industry) in the Creative Industries Faculty of Queensland University of Technology. She is the co-author, with Jane Stadler, of Screen Media: Analysing Film and Television (2009) and the author of When Carrie Met Sally: Lesbian Romantic Comedies (2008).
