From subject to collaborator: Transmedia storytelling and social research. (February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hancox, Donna
• Other Names: Ashton Dan guest-editor.; Bower Gavin James guest-editor.; Hollyman Steve guest-editor.; Pullinger Kate guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Convergence. Volume 23:Number 1(2017)
• Page Start: 49
• Page End: 60
• Publication Date: 2017-02
• Subjects: Collaboration -- community projects -- digital storytelling -- digital technology -- narrative research -- participation -- social activism -- transmedia storytelling; Mass media -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Telecommunication -- Periodicals; Mass media and technology -- Periodicals; 621.3897
• DOI: 10.1177/1354856516675252
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1354-8565

Abstract

New media technologies and the narrative turn in qualitative research have expanded the methods through which we gather and share the stories of groups who have traditionally been written about by others rather than telling their own stories to reveal the complexities of their experiences. There is a long tradition in community arts, community development and social activism that posits personal narratives as the building blocks for public understanding of complex social issues. In the fields of community storytelling, documentary and social activism, it is possible to see an emerging intersection between the affordances of digital technologies and the recognition of the stories of marginalized people. This article is particularly interested in the ways storytellers have repurposed the accepted conventions of transmedia storytelling to create projects that are able to offer a multiplicity of voices and to create stories that can represent complex issues without privileging a particular point of view or story form.