Constructing a digital storycircle: Digital infrastructure and mutual recognition. (September 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Couldry, Nick; MacDonald, Richard; Stephansen, Hilde; Clark, Wilma; Dickens, Luke; Fotopoulou, Aristea
• Is Part Of: International journal of cultural studies. Volume 18:Number 5(2015:Sep.)
• Page Start: 501
• Page End: 517
• Publication Date: 2015-09
• Subjects: digital storycircle -- digital storytelling -- narrative -- recognition -- storycircle; Culture -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1367877913519313
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1367-8779

Abstract

Building on the principles of the digital storytelling movement, this article asks whether the narrative exchange within the 'storycircles' of storymakers created in face-to-face workshops can be further replicated by drawing on digital infrastructure in specific ways. It addresses this question by reporting on the successes and limitations of a five-stream project of funded action research with partners in north-west England that explored the contribution of digital infrastructure to processes of narrative exchange and the wider processes of mutual recognition that flow from narrative exchange. Three main dimensions of a digital storycircle are explored: multiplications, spatializations (or the building of narratives around sets of individual narratives), and habits of mutual recognition. Limitations relate to the factors of time, and levels of digital development and basic digital access.