Understanding digital storytelling: individual ‘voice’  and community-building in youth media programs

dc.creator	Dr Craig Campbell
dc.creator	Dr Aneta Podkalicka
dc.date	2010-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:23:16Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:23:16Z
dc.identifier	1504-4831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8b250e6a4fb74fab8339108900978609
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29629
dc.description	Digital storytelling (DST) has been widely used as a means of empowerment for marginalised voices across community-based projects worldwide. This paper discusses uses but also limitations of the practice in the context of a Melbourne-based youth media program for ‘youth at risk’ called YouthWorx. Based on our ongoing, long-term ethnographic research, we explore the cultural production of digital stories as a co-creative process that exposes a range of controversies to do with the politics of ‘voice’, genre’s communicative potential and ethical considerations. Concrete examples from YouthWorx’s pedagogical work serve to illustrate the values of self-expression (‘voice’), critical reflection and collaboration that form part of broader social transformations generated by these creative practices. The critique of DST practice offered here connects with existing studies concerned with the socially contextualised processes of media education, and the theoretical shift beyond ‘the right to speak’ towards ‘the right to be understood’ (Husband, 2009). The paper recommends more analytical attention be paid to a dynamic social process of learning (of media, interpersonal competencies) and community-building, extending beyond the immediate DST situation, rather than narrowing the focus on end-result atomised media products.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Lillehammer University College
dc.relation	http://seminar.net/index.php/volume-6-issue-2-2010/150-understanding-digital-storytelling-individual-voice-and-community-building-in-youth-media-programs
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1504-4831
dc.source	Seminar.net, Vol 6, Iss 2, Pp 208-218 (2010)
dc.subject	digital storytelling
dc.subject	youth
dc.subject	media education
dc.subject	‘voice’
dc.subject	‘right to be understood’
dc.subject	community-building
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Understanding digital storytelling: individual ‘voice’ and community-building in youth media programs
dc.type	article