Digital storytelling, mediatized stories

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.Indhold: 1 Introduction: Digital storytelling, mediatized stories Knut Lundby Lundby, Knut 1 2 Tales of mediation: Narrative and digital media as cultural tools Ola Erstad Erstad, Ola James V. Wertsch Wertsch, James V. 21 3 Digital storytelling, media research and democracy: Conceptual choices and alternative futures Nick Couldry Couldry, Nick 41 4 Boundaries and bridges: Digital storytelling in education studies and media studies Kirsten Drotner Drotner, Kirsten 61 5 'It's good for them to know my story': Cultural mediation as tension Nancy Thumim Thumim, Nancy 85 6 Mediatized lives: Autobiography and assumed authenticity In digital storytelling Birgit Hertzberg Kaare Kaare, Birgit Hertzberg Knut Lundby Lundby, Knut 105 7 Self-presentation through multimedia: A Bakhtinian perspective on digital storytelling Mark Evan Nelson Nelson, Mark Evan Glynda A. Hull Hull, Glynda A. 123 8 Digital storytelling as a 'discursively ordered domain' Kelly Mcwilliam Mcwilliam, Kelly 145 9 Identity, aesthetics, and digital narration Lotte Nyboe Nyboe, Lotte Kirsten Drotner Drotner, Kirsten 161 10 Narrative strategies in a digital age: Authorship and authority Larry Friedlander Friedlander, Larry 177 11 Problems of expertise and scalability in self-made media John Hartley Hartley, John 197 12 Agency in digital storytelling: Challenging the educational context Ola Erstad Erstad, Ola Kenneth Silseth Silseth, Kenneth 213 13 Fairytale parenting: Contextual factors influencing children's online self-representation Elisabeth Staksrud Staksrud, Elisabeth 233 14 Creative brainwork: Building metaphors of identity for social science research David GauntlettGauntlett, David 253 15 Does it matter that it is digital? Tone Bratteteig Bratteteig, Tone 271 16 Shaping the 'me' in MySpace: The framing of profiles on a social network site David Brake Brake, David 285 Index 307