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From subject to collaborator: Transmedia storytelling and social research
No full textNew media technologies and the narrative turn in qualitative research have expanded the methods through which we gather and share the stories of groups who have traditionally been written about by others rather than telling their own stories to reveal the complexities of their experiences. There is a long tradition in community arts, community development and social activism that posits personal narratives as the building blocks for public understanding of complex social issues. In the fields of community storytelling, documentary and social activism, it is possible to see an emerging intersection between the affordances of digital technologies and the recognition of the stories of marginalized people. This article is particularly interested in the ways storytellers have repurposed the accepted conventions of transmedia storytelling to create projects that are able to offer a multiplicity of voices and to create stories that can represent complex issues without privileging a particular point of view or story form
Writing the Digital Futures Report 2014-2105 Arts Queensland
No full textThe Writing the Digital Futures project brings together international knowledge and expertise in digital writing to cement Queensland as a centre of innovation in writing and publishing within Australia. The purpose of the digital futures project is to change community and professional perceptions of storytelling and publishing in a digital age, with particular emphasis on transmedia/multi-platform storytelling
5 examples of transmedia storytelling and activism
No full textTransmedia storytelling and transmedia activism both afford and demand new approaches to telling our stories. Contemporary transmedia utilises multiple tools to engage audiences by creating stories that offer unique approaches to narrative, character, setting and innovative ways of looking at social issues. Here are 5 of the best recent examples
Stories with Impact: The Potential of Storytelling to Contribute to Cultural Research and Social Inclusion
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Two voices : the marginalised body as a voice & Imperfect Offerings a novel
No full textThis thesis investigates the phenomenon of self-harm as a form of political protest using two different, but complementary, methods of inquiry: a theoretical research project and a novel. Through these two approaches, to the same research problem, I examine how we can re-position the body that self-harms in political protest from weapon to voice; and in doing so find a path towards ethical and equitable dialogue between marginalised and mainstream communities. The theoretical, or academic, portion of the thesis examines self-harm as protest, positing these acts as a form of tactical selfharm, and acknowledge its emergence as a voice for the otherwise silenced in the public sphere. Through the use of phenomenology and feminist theory I examine the body as site for political agency, the circumstances which surround the use of the body for protest, and the reaction to tactical self-harm by the individual and the state. Using Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism, and the dialogic space I propose that by ‘hearing’ the body engaged in tactical selfharm we come closer to entering into an ethical dialogue with the otherwise silenced in our communities (locally, nationally and globally). The novel, Imperfect Offerings, explores these ideas in a fictional world, and allows me to put faces, names and lives to those who are compelled to harm their bodies to be heard. Also using Bakhtin’s framework I encourage a dialogue between the critical and creative parts of the thesis, challenging the traditional paradigm of creative PhD projects as creative work and exegesis
Provocare
No full textA new digital story exploring female agency and violence against women\ud
Launched this month, ‘Provocare’ is a multimedia verse thriller created by Meg Vann, writer; Mez Breeze, interaction designer; and Donna Hancox, research lead for Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). It is the first work to be commissioned and produced for ‘Queensland Writers on the International Stage’, an Arts Queensland funded programme created by QUT and The Writing Platform
The Process of Remembering with the Forgotten Australians: Digital Storytelling and Marginalized Groups
No full textDigital storytelling projects have proliferated in Australia since the early 2000s, and have been theorized as a means to disseminate the stories and voices of “ordinary” people. In this paper I examine through the case study of a 2009 digital storytelling project between the Australasian Centre for Interactive Design and a group identifying as Forgotten Australian whether digital storytelling in its predominant workshop-based format is able to meet the needs of profoundly marginalized and traumatized individuals and groups. For digital storytelling to be of use to marginalized groups as a means of communication or reflection a significant re-examination of the current approaches to its format, and its function needs to undertaken. This paper posits new ways of utilizing digital storytelling when dealing with trauma narratives.peerReviewe
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