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Selected Papers from 11th International Digital Storytelling Conference 2023: Radical Listening: Story Work for a Just Future

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2023) | Viewed by 9883

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Bill Shewbridge

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Media and Communication Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Interests: digital storytelling; community engagement
Dr. Burcu Simsek

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Department of Communication Sciences, Hacettepe University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
Interests: digital storytelling; women studies; oral history; migration and health communication
Dr. Brooke Hessler

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StoryCenter, Berkeley, CA 94702, USA
Interests: digital storytelling

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

In collaboration with the 11th International Digital Storytelling conference (DST 2023), to be held in the Washington/Baltimore metropolitan region of the United States in June 2023, we invite the submission of papers presented at the conference for inclusion in a special issue of Social Sciences. 

DST 2023: Radical Listening: Story Work for a Just Future focuses on how story work can help to strengthen our communities and build understanding across divides. Conference papers will focus on context, content, purpose, and practice through a variety of lenses, including:

  • Radical listening for amplifying voices;
  • Cultivating hopes and healing for a just future;
  • Story luminaries: shining light on cultures, voices, and practices;
  • Equity and access;
  • Urgent story work in urgent times;
  • Building and cultivating communities;
  • Histories and cultures in storytelling; 
  • Research on DS as research methodology;
  • DS for assessment;
  • DS pedagogy.

Dr. Bill Shewbridge
Dr. Burcu Simsek
Dr. Brooke Hessler
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Social Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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  • digital storytelling
  • community engagement
  • international digital storytelling conference 2023

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Introduction to the Special Issue “Selected Papers from 11th International Digital Storytelling Conference 2023: Radical Listening: Story Work for a Just Future”
by Bill Shewbridge, Brooke Hessler and Burcu Şimşek
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(3), 157; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13030157 - 08 Mar 2024
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Digital storytelling (DS) is a term that has come to mean different things in different contexts [...] Full article
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Towards a Co-Creative Immersive Digital Storytelling Methodology to Explore Experiences of Homelessness in Loughborough
by Holly Turpin, Rebecca Cain and Michael Wilson
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(1), 59; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13010059 - 16 Jan 2024
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Despite the potential use of digital storytelling with marginalised groups, there are few examples of its application in homelessness or examinations of co-creative relationships in this context. Along with digital storytelling, this research used immersive media (virtual reality and 360 degree video) to [...] Read more.
Despite the potential use of digital storytelling with marginalised groups, there are few examples of its application in homelessness or examinations of co-creative relationships in this context. Along with digital storytelling, this research used immersive media (virtual reality and 360 degree video) to explore place-based social exclusion. In the feasibility study, with four doctoral researchers at Loughborough University as participants, immersive digital stories were co-created. The aim of this study was to understand how to create place-based immersive digital stories, through adapting existing digital storytelling methods and the co-creation of virtual reality, to inform best practices for future studies involving participants who have experienced homelessness. Participants created maps and empathy timelines, shared stories, recorded voiceovers and edited footage. The researcher facilitated this and recorded the 360-degree filmed footage. The final stories proved to explore place-based social exclusion. Co-creative relationships were found to be more significant between the researcher and individual participant than amongst the participants as a group. With immersive media, the researcher’s experience formed an active part of the finished pieces. Despite this, participants described their role as director, being ultimately in control. These findings will influence the methods that will be used in the future with those who have experienced homelessness in Loughborough. They also show how immersive media in digital storytelling can strengthen co-creation and acknowledge the researcher in the story. Full article
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Power and Precarity: First Generation Students Compose Digital Stories of Class Mobility
by Jane A. Van Galen
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(11), 593; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12110593 - 26 Oct 2023
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bell hooks writes that to sustain myths of meritocratic educational systems, college campuses remain silent about social class differences. For poor and working-class first-generation college students, this silence means learning little about structural obstacles placed in the way of aspiring to and then [...] Read more.
bell hooks writes that to sustain myths of meritocratic educational systems, college campuses remain silent about social class differences. For poor and working-class first-generation college students, this silence means learning little about structural obstacles placed in the way of aspiring to and then succeeding in college. They commonly graduate from under-financed high schools in economically declining communities, yet internalize shame and silence as they struggle to compete with more privileged peers once on campus. Toward breaking that silence, I facilitated digital storytelling workshops with 78 diverse first and former first-generation students across the U.S. and later interviewed them. Drawing on Bourdieu’s analysis of class as both internalized and material, the paper discusses how these storytellers made class inequalities visible in speaking of their daily lives. From an emerging collective identity, they reported a new sense of agency and voice. Full article
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Building Learning Communities through Digital Storytelling
by Zisoula Gkoutsioukosta and Venetia Apostolidou
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(10), 541; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12100541 - 26 Sep 2023
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This paper shares the first insights of the Digital Storytelling Hubs research project held by the School of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. It is a still in-progress action research study that comprises [...] Read more.
This paper shares the first insights of the Digital Storytelling Hubs research project held by the School of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. It is a still in-progress action research study that comprises two action research cycles. The aim of the present paper is to outline the dynamic role that digital storytelling could play in building learning communities. The research program includes the creation of three hubs, one digital and two physical, for transferring higher education research practice to primary and secondary education, and for disseminating digital storytelling as an innovative learning tool. During the pilot cycle, digital storytelling was implemented in two experimental schools in Greece, while during the main cycle, a total of 50 elementary and secondary teachers were involved. Data sources include students’ and teachers’ participation statistics, the digital stories created by students so far, the students’ answers in questionnaires and teachers’ semi-structured interviews after the pilot interventions in class. The findings suggest the dynamics of digital storytelling workshops to create vivid and powerful learning communities that foster both classic and new literacies and enhance a creative and critical attitude towards modern media culture. Full article
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Gathering Stories: Creating Spaces for Young Women to Connect and Build Community through Multimodal Storytelling
by Laura Shackelford, Ammina Kothari and Karen vanMeenen
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(9), 487; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12090487 - 31 Aug 2023
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Digital storytelling prioritizes real-time connections, story creation, contextual adaptability, multi-media expression, and accessibility. This article discusses the unrecognized affordances and value of digital storytelling practices for teens living in precarious (neo)colonial lifeworlds. We review the workshop methods developed as designers and leaders of [...] Read more.
Digital storytelling prioritizes real-time connections, story creation, contextual adaptability, multi-media expression, and accessibility. This article discusses the unrecognized affordances and value of digital storytelling practices for teens living in precarious (neo)colonial lifeworlds. We review the workshop methods developed as designers and leaders of “Gathering Stories: A Digital Storytelling Workshop for Young Women” in July 2021 to enliven and illuminate high school students’ voices while also addressing social, emotional, and affective experiences and needs during the pandemic. The article details how we co-realized spaces where teens’ lived experience of gathering and the draw of story were the driving forces for their diverse storytelling practices. Identifying positive outcomes for the first iteration of the workshop, we also identify challenges that will inform future iterations of the workshop, such as structural dimensions of intersectionality and the challenges predicative AI such as ChatGPT poses to such efforts to prioritize experiential dimensions of learning through storytelling. Full article
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What Digital Storytelling Means to the New Generation of Researchers
by Antonia Liguori, Karen Jiyun Sung, Lucy McLaughlin and Jennifer Stuttle
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(9), 485; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12090485 - 30 Aug 2023
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A new, hybrid way of conceiving Digital Storytelling (DS) in applied research is presented here as an essential trigger to challenge, expand, and eventually re-frame the way in which DS is currently codified. The three methodological perspectives described in this paper share a [...] Read more.
A new, hybrid way of conceiving Digital Storytelling (DS) in applied research is presented here as an essential trigger to challenge, expand, and eventually re-frame the way in which DS is currently codified. The three methodological perspectives described in this paper share a common understanding of practice-as-research. They position themselves within three distinct disciplines—illustration, animation, and the creative arts in education—but have a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity. Each of them is trying to respond to a specific cultural and personal issue (e.g., sense of identity, mental health, attainment within competitive environments, etc.) and also serves as a prompt to reflect on a potential new aspect of DS as research, linked to the how, the what, and the why of these multiple and complementary applications. The intention of this paper is not to propose one alternative way of operating, but to inspire other researchers wanting to apply this approach in their work to constantly challenge any pre-conceived form and process, while prioritizing the democratization of knowledge production and informing their research process with co-design and participatory principles. The take-away message from these three case studies is that DS will be, in fact, embraced by the new generations of researchers as a sustainable practice all the more, as its many disruptions will generate spaces for co-creation and self-representation to emerge, and will stimulate everyone involved in the research process to challenge their own way of thinking and to go beyond what was codified by others and by their own practice too. Full article
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Reflections on the Impact of an Intergenerational Digital Storytelling Program on Changing Attitudes and Fostering Dialogue and Understanding across the Generations
by Mark Silver and Lysha Zhi Yan Lee
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(11), 606; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12110606 - 01 Nov 2023
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Digital storytelling (DST) has the primary goal of giving underrepresented voices a platform to be seen and heard. Adding an intergenerational dimension can bring about many other benefits for all participants as well as the wider community. This article presents a reflection on [...] Read more.
Digital storytelling (DST) has the primary goal of giving underrepresented voices a platform to be seen and heard. Adding an intergenerational dimension can bring about many other benefits for all participants as well as the wider community. This article presents a reflection on the Positive Ageing Digital Storytelling Intergenerational Program (PADSIP), outlining the various elements involve in program planning and implementation, reflecting on the past 15 years of program delivery, and underscoring future directions. PADSIP brings together older adults from both community and residential care settings with high school students in an intergenerational context. The process involves collaboratively creating digital stories that explore shared passions and lived experiences. Over the past 15 years, the program has evolved to include various adaptations to accommodate diverse groups, including neurodiverse individuals and those with disabilities. The program, originally taking a ten-session weekly format, has even become an integral part of school curricula in one local high school. Although the COVID-19 pandemic prompted adjustments including temporary transition of program meetings to online platforms as well as video production assistance, the intergenerational bonds and meaningful dialogues remained strong. By challenging stereotypes and fostering deeper connections, the program highlights the potential for intergenerational DST to positively reshape attitudes and understanding among participants. Current and future program research seek to delve into the mechanisms that facilitate such transformative outcomes, investigating the in-depth connections and communication that characterise the intergenerational DST approach. Full article
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