Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in New Media

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Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on «me», flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling workshops. The resulting digital stories could be called «mediatized stories». This book deals with these self-representational stories, aiming to understand the transformations in the age-old practice of storytelling that have become possible with the new, digital media. Its approach is interdisciplinary, exploring how the mediation or mediatization processes of digital storytelling can be grasped and offering a sociological perspective of media studies and a socio-cultural take of the educational sciences. Aesthetic and literary perspectives on narration as well as questioning from an informatics perspective are also included. Cover Contents 1. Introduction: Digital storytelling, mediatized stories (Knut Lundby) Part I: Concepts and Approaches 2. Tales of mediation: Narrative and digital media as cultural tools (Ola Erstad and James V. Wertsch) 3. Digital storytelling, media research and democracy: Conceptual choices and alternative futures (Nick Couldry) 4. Boundaries and bridges: Digital storytelling in education studies and media studies (Kirsten Drotner) Part II: Representing Oneself 5. ‘It’s good for them to know my story’: Cultural mediation as tension (Nancy Thumim) 6. Mediatized lives: Autobiography and assumed authenticity in digital storytelling (Birgit Hertzberg Kaare and Knut Lundby) 7. Self-presentation through multimedia: A Bakhtinian perspective on digital storytelling (Mark Evan Nelson and Glynda A. Hull) Part III: Strategies of Digital Narration 8. Digital storytelling as a ‘discursively ordered domain’ (Kelly McWilliam) 9. Identity, aesthetics, and digital narration (Lotte Nyboe and Kirsten Drotner) 10. Narrative strategies in a digital age: Authorship and authority (Larry Friedlander) Part IV: Challenging Authorities 11. Problems of expertise and scalability in self-made media (John Hartley) 12. Agency in digital storytelling: Challenging the educational context (Ola Erstad and Kenneth Silseth) 13. Fairytale parenting: Contextual factors influencing children’s online self-representation (Elisabeth Staksrud) Part V: On The Edge 14. Creative brainwork: Building metaphors of identity for social science research (David Gauntlett) 15. Does it matter that it is digital? (Tone Bratteteig) 16. Shaping the ‘me’ in MySpace: The framing of profiles on a social network site (David Brake) Notes on contributors Index