Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories

The Editor: Knut Lundby is Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo, Norway. He holds a Dr.philos. in sociology from the University of Oslo. He was the founding director of the interdisciplinary research centre InterMedia at the University of Oslo, focusing on design, communication, and learning in digital environments. He is the director of the Mediatized Stories project which this book draws upon.

Contents: Knut Lundby: Introduction: Digital storytelling, mediatized stories – Ola Erstad/James V. Wertsch: Tales of mediation: Narrative and digital media as cultural tools – Nick Couldry: Digital storytelling, media research and democracy: Conceptual choices and alternative futures – Kirsten Drotner: Boundaries and bridges: Digital storytelling in education studies and media studies – Nancy Thumim: ‘It’s good for them to know my story’: Cultural mediation as tension – Birgit Hertzberg Kaare/Knut Lundby: Mediatized lives: Autobiography and assumed authenticity in digital storytelling – Mark Evan Nelson/Glynda A. Hull: Self-presentation through multimedia: A Bakhtinian perspective on digital storytelling – Kelly McWilliam: Digital storytelling as a ‘discursively ordered domain’ – Lotte Nyboe/Kirsten Drotner: Identity, aesthetics, and digital narration – Larry Friedlander: Narrative strategies in a digital age: Authorship and authority – John Hartley: Problems of expertise and scalability in self-made media – Ola Erstad/Kenneth Silseth: Agency in digital storytelling: Challenging the educational context – Elisabeth Staksrud: Fairytale parenting: Contextual factors influencing children’s online self-representation – David Gauntlett: Creative brainwork: Building metaphors of identity for social science research – Tone Bratteteig: Does it matter that it is digital? – David Brake: Shaping the ‘me’ in MySpace: The framing of profiles on a social network site.