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Digital Storytelling: Story Work for Urgent Times
Digital Storytelling: Story Work for Urgent Times
Paperback
6th Edition
Published 2020
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In the sixth edition of StoryCenter’s popular guide to digital storytelling, StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert offers budding storytellers the skills and tools they need to craft compelling digital stories. Using a Seven Steps approach, Lambert, and his colleague Dr. Brooke Hessler, help storytellers identify the fundamentals of dynamic digital storytelling – from conceiving a story, to seeing, assembling, and sharing it. Readers will also find new explorations of the global applications of digital storytelling in education and other fields, as well as additional information about copyright, ethics, and distribution. The book is filled with resources about past and present projects on the grassroots and institutional level, including chapters specifically for students and educators, discussions of approaches to the latest mobile applications and media production processes. The book includes an updated Introduction, a new foreword by academic Jane Van Galen, interview with media educator Sonia Chaidez, and a roundtable with StoryCenter's program staff. This accessible guide’s meaningful examples and inviting tone make this an essential guide for any student learning the steps of digital storytelling.
“Our innermost and deepest stories often lie buried inside of us. Digital Storytelling is an artistic and technical guide to learning how to find those stories and tell them in the digital age. Hundreds of my students have used this deeply beautiful book to guide their own search and then assist community storytellers in creating stories of their own.”
“Digital Storytelling is not your typical text for writing courses—it is a truly engaging history about storytelling that helps students connect to why we even tell stories. Storytelling is an art, and Lambert’s text reflects this. I enjoy using Digital Storytelling to not only teach my students how to become comfortable with telling stories, but to also inspire me on how I approach my storytelling instruction.
The text covers the essential elements of storytelling via a storytelling circle that creates a safe environment for the most timid of students to participate in class. There are also plenty of astute examples and references for the students. For a book that averages about 200 pages, this is quite a feat. My students tell me this is a text they enjoy reading and applying the techniques the text offers them in order to help them craft stories with a enhanced sense of creativity and a can-do spirit. This is one of a small collection of texts that students typically do not sell back, instead they share and re-read their text when they need to rejuvenate future stories—some of which have gone on to win awards or shaped capstone texts and films at UHCL. This text is a must for any storytelling course. Your students will thank you for making this their primary text for your course. This new edition updates some of the content to ensure the text remains contextually relevant to the field of storytelling and its related topics in the dynamic academic landscape of digital media communication.
Since 2002, Lambert has paid attention to our field and I now consider Lambert a formative researcher and instructor whose text is the go-to text to use when one wants to instruct an engaging course that promotes storytelling in a proactive and humanist manner. Additionally, students take note that the text has been in print since before the advent of digital media and has adapted to remain a text that stays true to the essential aspects of excellent storytelling instruction. Just read the interviews and examples and you will be hooked!”
Digital Storytelling: Story Work for Urgent Times
6th Edition
Table of Contents
Foreword by Jane Van Galen
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Work of Story
Chapter 2 - Stories of Our Lives
Interlude 1 - The Legacy of Tanya
Chapter 3 - A Road Traveled: The Evolution of the Digital Storytelling Practice
Chapter 4 - The World of Digital Storytelling
Interlude 2 - Wynne’s Story
Chapter 5 - Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling
Chapter 6 - The Story Circle
Chapter 7 - To Students: Getting Started in Digital Story Work: Mindsets and Methods
Interlude 3 - İlmiye’s Story by Burcu Simsek
Chapter 8 - Approaches to the Scripting Process: Prompts and Processes
Chapter 9 - The Walking Story Circle: Rethinking Digital Storytelling in the Era of Mobile Devices
Interlude 4 - Areej’s Story by Nikoline Lohmann
Chapter 10 - Storyboarding
Chapter 11 - Designing in Digital: Working With Digital Imaging, Audio, and Video
Interlude 5 - Nellie’s Story by Rani Sanderson
Chapter 12 - Distribution, Ethics, and the Politics of Engagement
Chapter 13 - Applications of Digital Storytelling
Interlude 6 - Zahid’s Story
Chapter 14 - Silence Speaks: A Conversation with Amy Hill
Chapter 15 - Listening to Change: Stories From Alaska’s Native Health Communities: Conversation with Laura Revels
Chapter 16 - Humanizing Healthcare: A Conversation with Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner
Chapter 17 - Transforming Education Through Story Work: A Conversation with Dr. Brooke Hessler
Chapter 18 - A State of Listening: Reflections on the California Listens Project
Chapter 19 - Bouncing Down the Road Together on the StoryCenter Bus: A Roundtable
Chapter 20 - Bridging College and Community Through Digital Storytelling: A Conversation with Sonia Chaidez
Bibliography
Index