Story Circle Digital Storytelling Around the World

by Hartley, John; McWilliam, Kelly

• ISBN13: 9781405180580
• ISBN10: 1405180587
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

"Where once cultures valued storytellers for lauding, lamenting and laughing at those in power, this thoughtful book illuminates the hopes, practices and achievements of the myriad amateur storytellers who populate today's globalised and digitalized cultures." Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science"I warmly welcome the publication of Story Circle. It provides a fascinating account of what's happened in digital storytelling so far and will be a crucial reference point for digital storytelling in the future." Menna Richards Controller BBC WalesEveryone loves a story. Not everyone loves a computer. 'Digital storytelling' is a workshop-based practice in which people are taught to use digital media to create short audio-video stories, usually about their own lives, placing the universal human delight in narrative and self expression into the hands of everyone, bringing a timeless form into the digital age, and giving a voice to the myriad tales of everyday life as experienced by ordinary people.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-- consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling youth movement, and micro-documentary--Story Circle pinpoints who is telling what stories where, on what terms, and what they look and sound like. From China and Brazil to Western Europe and Australia, Story Circle charts how tales are being told and retold in the digital age.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).

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xii
What Is Digital Storytelling?	p. 1
Computational Power Meets Human Contact	p. 3
TV Stories: From Representation to Productivity	p. 16
The Global Diffusion of a Community Media Practice: Digital Storytelling Online	p. 37
Foundational Practices	p. 77
Where It All Started: The Center for Digital Storytelling in California	p. 79
"Capture Wales": The BBC Digital Storytelling Project	p. 91
Digital Storytelling at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image	p. 118
Radio Storytelling and Beyond	p. 124
Digital Storytelling Around the World	p. 129
Narrating Euro-African Life in Digital Space	p. 131
Developing Digital Storytelling in Brazil	p. 144
Digital Storytelling as Participatory Public History in Australia	p. 155
Finding a Voice: Participatory Development in Southeast Asia	p. 167
The Matrices of Digital Storytelling: Examples from Scandinavia	p. 176
Digital Storytelling in Belgium: Power and Participation	p. 188
Exploring Self-representations in Wales and London: Tension in the Text	p. 205
Emergent Practices	p. 219
Digital Storytelling as Play: The Tale of Tales	p. 221
Commercialization and Digital Storytelling in China	p. 230
Digital Storytelling with Youth: Whose Agenda Is It?	p. 245
Digital Storytelling in Education: An Emerging Institutional Technology?	p. 252
Digital Storytelling in Organizations: Syntax and Skills	p. 260
Beyond Individual Expression: Working with Cultural Institutions	p. 269
References	p. 279
Index	p. 300
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