[ecrea] Digital Storytelling Form and Content

I’m really pleased to let everyone know that Digital Storytelling Form 
and Content, edited by Mark Dunford and Tricia Jenkins has just been 
published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Our edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to 
explore the uses of Digital Storytelling, which places the greatest 
possible emphasis on the voice of the storyteller. Case studies are used 
as a platform to investigate questions of concept, theory and practice, 
and to shine an interrogative light on this emergent form of 
participatory media. The collection examines the creative and academic 
roots of Digital Storytelling before drawing on a range of international 
examples to consider the way in which the practice has established 
itself and evolved in different settings across the world.
It follows on from the work showcased at the Untold conference hosted at 
UEL in July 2017.
The title is available via this link 
http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137591517#aboutBook. Thanks to 
everyone who contributed to the book and the conference.
Advance reviews below:
“Digital Storytelling is a socially-engaged arts movement, a 
recognisable media genre, and a community-centred practice. Since its 
origins on the West Coast of the US more than two decades ago, it has 
been taken up around the world, and is only growing in momentum with 
educational, arts, and activist organisations who want to use 
well-crafted personal stories to increase the personal meaningfulness or 
public impact of their work. Bringing together an exceptional lineup of 
eminent media theorists and practitioners reflecting on how this can be 
done well and what it means for culture and society, this book marks a 
new phase of maturity for digital storytelling as a field of study and a 
powerful platform for cultural participation and social change.” (Jean 
Burgess, Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

“Digital storytelling is emerging as an important and truly inclusive 
social movement that is changing how we think about democratic practice. 
This exciting new collection brings together leading practitioners and 
academics from Europe, North America, Africa and Asia to reflect, with 
fine practical sensitivity, on the differences that stories can make in 
experiences of social change and mobility, art and policy. An inspiring 
cross-cultural perspective on the forms, practice and values of digital 
storytelling.” (Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political 
Science, UK)

“Digital storytelling is one of the great, quiet media stories of the 
last quarter century. This invaluable collection sheds light on all its 
aspects: stories as therapy, political resistance, liberating acts of 
creativity, teaching and routes to research.  Its source material 
touches every point of the compass.” (Ian Hargreaves CBE, Cardiff 
University, UK)

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