Here are some digital stories from my First Year Seminar: Technology and
Social Revolution
(http://mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/hvila/FutureCommunities/):
http://muskrat.middlebury.edu/st/cr/fall04/hvila/fyse1094/
And here's a grant funded project with local public school teachers around
the notion of digital stories for community activism:
http://segue.middlebury.edu/sites/collaborative
I'm good friends with Joe Lambert, too, having worked with him a few times
here in the East Coast. And with my colleague, Barbara Ganley, we'll be at
the MIT4 conference this next month
(http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit4/subs/mit4_abstracts.html#rz): here's the
abstract :
Socrates Meets Borges: Telling Digital Stories Around the Virtual Liberal
Arts Campfire
Hector Vila and Barbara Ganley, Middlebury College
In this paper, two Middlebury College professors will argue that the
synthesis of web authoring with digital storytelling recreates dimensions of
extended and enduring connectivity, privileging the importance of story to
community, to advocacy and activism, to education and to a sense of personal
efficacy. Digital storytelling, in particular, asks practioners to
reconsider the role and form of stories in academic discourse and in their
own creative and intellectual investigations.
> From: Jean Burgess <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: The impact of digital technologies upon writing and lived
> experience <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:20:37 +1000
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [WDL] [WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE] Intros and a suggestion for
> managing mail
>
> Thanks Sue, I realised as soon as I got my own email back (Doh!) - glad to
> see it is all sorted anyhow.
>
> The kind of digital storytelling I'm referring to is the specific format
> where linear personal narratives, as recorded voiceovers, are combined with
> still images to create what is basically a 2-3 minute video. What
> fascinates me about it is the way in which this method (and the
> collaborative workshops in which the stories are constructed) is effectively
> a remediation of everyday storytelling practices - with the effect that the
> personal can become public in a way that is far from trivial. I'm a cultural
> studies researcher after all, and always on the look out for ways in which
> the media can be 'democratised'.
>
> I'm highly aware that to many people on the list "digital storytelling" is a
> much broader proposisition!
>
>
> Jean
> On 18/4/05 9:04 AM, "Sue Thomas" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jean
>>
>> Welcome to the list!
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestion re the subject lines but in fact it is the system
>> which has been adding that, rather than individual users. When I set up the
>> list I set it to add [WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE] to every subject line,
>> which is why you've seen it a lot.
>>
>> But about half an hour ago I changed that text to [WDL] to shorten it a bit
>> - which is why you have a double set of brackets on yours! Sorry about the
>> tangle.
>>
>> Your point re setting a filter is a good one. If anyone needs advice on how
>> to do that, feel free to email me backchannel at [log in to unmask]
>>
>> I look forward to hearing more about your research. Can you tell me whether
>> digital storytelling focusses on fiction, or does it include all kinds of
>> digital narratives?
>>
>> Best
>> sue
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: Jean Burgess <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Reply-To: The impact of digital technologies upon writing and lived
>>> experience <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:38:32 +1000
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: [WDL] [WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE] Intros and a suggestion for
>>> managing mail
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Iım a PhD student and sessional lecturer/tutor in the creative industries
>>> research and applications centre (CIRAC) at Queensland University of
>>> Technology, Australia. My thesis is called vernacular creativity and new
>>> mediaı. Through my research I investigate the potential of the new relations
>>> between everyday life and new media for cultural participation: that is,
>>> that creative production (weblogs, online journals, flickr, moblogging, etc)
>>> might now be as much a part of everyday life for 'ordinary' people (and vice
>>> versa) as cultural consumption is - in fact, the separation of production
>>> from consumption, everyday life from media, is increasingly problematic.
>>>
>>> One of my case studies is Digital Storytelling (i.e. The community media
>>> practice known by that name as seen in the work of the center for DST at
>>> http://www.storycenter.org and BBCıs capture wales program
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalstorytelling), so Iıve spent a fair bit of time
>>> being trained up as a trainer and conducting digital storytelling workshops
>>> as part of a few different projects here at QUT.
>>>
>>> Before that, I was a classical musician for 10 years, and for everything
>>> else I should probably just refer you to my blog:
>>> http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~burgess, where I do a lot of my writing...
>>>
>>> Jean
>>>
>>>
>>> P.S. Iıve followed previous posters in putting
>>> [WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE] in the subject header if it were possible
>>> to set the list up so this happened automatically, we would have a way of
>>> visually flagging emails to this list, and we could use mail filters to
>>> avoid our mainı inboxes being swamped. If this isnıt possible, you can
>>> apply the filter to any mail to or from
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jean Burgess
>>> PhD Candidate
>>> Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre (CIRAC)
>>>
>>> Z1-515, Creative Industries Precinct
>>> Queensland University of Technology
>>> Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059
>>>
>>> Phone: +617 3864 3818
>>> Mobile: 0401 733 755
>>> QUT CRICOS 00213J
>>>
>>> Reviews editor, International Journal of Cultural Studies
>>> Postgraduate representative, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
>
> --
> Jean Burgess
> PhD Candidate
> Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre (CIRAC)
>
> Z1-515, Creative Industries Precinct
> Queensland University of Technology
> Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059
>
> Phone: +617 3864 3818
> Mobile: 0401 733 755
> QUT CRICOS 00213J
>
> Reviews editor, International Journal of Cultural Studies
> Postgraduate representative, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
>
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