Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World [Hardcover]

John Hartley (Editor), Kelly McWilliam (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 12, 2009 | ISBN-10: 1405180595 | ISBN-13: 978-1405180597 | Edition: 1

Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape.

• Covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling youth movement, participatory public history, audience reception, videoblogging and microdocumentary
  
• Pinpoints who is telling what stories where, on what terms, and what they look and sound like
  
• Explores the boundaries of digital storytelling from China and Brazil to Western Europe and Australia

Editorial Reviews

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"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)

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"Where once cultures valued storytellers for lauding, lamenting and laughing at those in power, this thoughtful book illuminates the hopes, practices and achievements of the myriad amateur storytellers who populate today's globalised and digitalized cultures." Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science

“I warmly welcome the publication of Story Circle. It provides a fascinating account of what's happened in digital storytelling so far and will be a crucial reference point for digital storytelling in the future.” Menna Richards Controller BBC Wales

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 328 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (May 12, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405180595
• ISBN-13: 978-1405180597
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,008,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr Jean Burgess is a Senior Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and an Associate Researcher with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation. She researches and publishes on issues of cultural participation in new media contexts, focusing particularly on user-created content, online social networks, and co-creative media such as digital storytelling. Her recent work has included a study of YouTube undertaken in collaboration with Joshua Green (Convergence Culture Consortium, MIT), culminating in the book YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, published by Polity Press in 2009, and subsequently translated into Portuguese (Editora Aleph) and Italian (Editore EGEA).

Burgess has developed several applied research partnerships with cultural institutions and community-based organizations, focusing on the uses of co-creative media such as digital storytelling for cultural participation, advocacy and engagement. She has a background in music performance, cultural studies and Internet studies.