Story Circle

"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)

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).

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