Story Circle

John Hartley is Distinguished Professor and ARC Federation Fellow at Queensland University of Technology, and Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative industries and Innovation. He is the author of Television Truths (Wiley-Blackwell 2008) and A Short History of Cultural Studies (2003), and editor of Creative Industries (Wiley-Blackwell 2005). He is Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies. Kelly McWilliam is an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Industry) in the Creative Industries Faculty of Queensland University of Technology. She is the co-author, with Jane Stadler, of Screen Media: Analysing Film and Television (2009) and the author of When Carrie Met Sally: Lesbian Romantic Comedies (2008).

• List of Figures viiList of Tables ixAcknowledgments xNotes on Contributors xiiPart I What Is Digital Storytelling? 11 Computational Power Meets Human Contact 3John Hartley and Kelly McWilliam2 TV Stories: From Representation to Productivity 16John Hartley3 The Global Diffusion of a Community Media Practice: Digital Storytelling Online 37Kelly McWilliamPart II Foundational Practices 774 Where It All Started: The Center for Digital Storytelling in California 79Joe Lambert5 “Capture Wales”: The BBC Digital Storytelling Project 91Daniel Meadows and Jenny Kidd6 Digital Storytelling at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image 118Helen Simondson7 Radio Storytelling and Beyond 124Marie CrookPart III Digital Storytelling Around the World 1298 Narrating Euro-African Life in Digital Space 131Sissy Helff and Julie Woletz9 Developing Digital Storytelling in Brazil 144Margaret Anne Clarke10 Digital Storytelling as Participatory Public History in Australia 155Jean Burgess and Helen Klaebe11 Finding a Voice: Participatory Development in Southeast Asia 167Jo Tacchi12 The Matrices of Digital Storytelling: Examples from Scandinavia 176Knut Lundby13 Digital Storytelling in Belgium: Power and Participation 188Nico Carpentier14 Exploring Self-representations in Wales and London: Tension in the Text 205Nancy ThumimPart IV Emergent Practices 21915 Digital Storytelling as Play: The Tale of Tales 221Maria Chatzichristodoulou16 Commercialization and Digital Storytelling in China 230Wu Qiongli17 Digital Storytelling with Youth: Whose Agenda Is It? 245Lora Taub-Pervizpour18 Digital Storytelling in Education: An Emerging Institutional Technology? 252Patrick Lowenthal19 Digital Storytelling in Organizations: Syntax and Skills 260Lisa Dush20 Beyond Individual Expression: Working with Cultural Institutions 269Jerry Watkins and Angelina RussoReferences 279Index 300

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