Using digital storytelling—a new media genre that began in
California in the late 1990s and that proliferated across ‘the
West’ in the 2000s—as a site of analysis, this book asks, ‘What
is done in the name of the everyday?’ Like everyday
multiculturalism, digital storytelling is promoted as an accessible,
enabling, and ordinary phenomenon that represents cultural experience
more accurately than official sites. As such, the genre frequently
houses stories of migration, community, and ethnic and racial
differences. In turn, digital story collections often act as digital
monuments or repositories of multiculturalism, giving a digital life
to narratives of migration, cultural difference, and national
belonging. This is evidenced in one of the world’s largest public
collections of digital stories, found in the Australian Centre for the
Moving Image (ACMI) and referenced throughout this book. Using
examples from this collection and pointing to comparable ones in the
UK and North America, this book investigates how notions of the
everyday become a channel through which certain long-standing
discourses of race get redeployed in multicultural nations. What can
digital storytelling teach us about the status and future of
multiculturalism in these societies? Can digital storytelling
re-mediate multiculturalism in new, progressive ways?
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Digital Storytelling and the Everyday Ethnic
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781785273919
Publisert
2020
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Vendor
Anthem Press (NBN)
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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