Partnerships in Meaning-Making: Digital Storytelling as Cultural Sustainability Practice
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2016-12-30
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MA in Cultural Sustainability
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Abstract
This reflective paper summarizes research that explored digital storytelling as a potential
method for cultural sustainability practice. The digital storytelling process involves the
production in a facilitated workshop setting of short (3-5 minute) personal narratives that include
photographs, art or music, and first-person narration. Findings presented in this paper suggest
that digital storytelling provides not only a complementary method for engaging community
partners, but also offers important insights into issues of power, representation, positionality,
and ethical practice. The paper includes recommendations for bringing cultural sustainability
principles to digital storytelling practice, as well as models for bringing the digital storytelling
approach to the practice of cultural sustainability. The paper concludes by introducing a website
concept – the Collaborative Digital Storytelling Hub – as an online resource for connecting
digital storytelling practitioners with culture workers and community partners who are interested
in exploring digital storytelling applications in their work with communities.