Episode 7. Talk with Beth Daley, Carola Carlino, and Lorenza Stanziano
Explore in this post the content from the seventh episode of The DH Education Podcast, your program to be updated on the digital heritage education domain.
The topic of the week
From the earliest human groups, stories have been part of our lives. Stories have become a vehicle for learning from others, communicating our experience, or preserving the local intangible heritage alive.
Adapted to a new time, digital storytelling opens new possibilities for engaging with society and be used for educational purposes or to disseminate cultural heritage.
Digital storytelling is defined as the strategy for telling stories in a digital way.
The term “digital” refers to the type of devices where it is displayed (i.e. mobile phones, tablets, computers, and any type of screen) but also the media and the platforms used for it (i.e. television, social media, web-based narratives, interactive TV, video games, VR apps, 3D cinema, etc…).
The type of storytelling used is characterized by their interactivity, for this reason, some authors named as interactive digital storytelling. It can be physically moving the audience to interact with the screen but also emotionally connecting powerfully with what they feel.
That fact changes the way the story is told, giving the opportunity to the audience to be a viewer and a participant of the story at the same time, breaking the communication roles and advancing to a new level.
After this introduction, let me propose some questions to discuss today with our speakers: what is the best method to engage with audiences with digital storytelling? How some projects are using digital storytelling? Are we far away from the best way of engaging with interactive stories?
A talk with Beth Daley, Carola Carlino, and Lorenza Stanziano
Watch the seventh episode of the podcast where I talk with Beth Daley (Europeana Foundation, The Netherlands), Carola Carlino (University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy), and Lorenza Stanziano (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) about their experience in the Digital Storytelling Task Force from the Europeana Network Association. During this time we will cover the aims of this working group, the theoretical framework they have developed with other participants to know how to achieve emotional engagement with cultural heritage stories, what they have learned from the examples they have analyzed and the final recommendations they have for the cultural heritage sector.
The case studies analyzed in this Task Force were ‘You are Flora Seville’, a twitter thread from Egham museum, the educational platform Met Kids from The Metropolitan Museum of New York, and A picture of change for a world in constant motion, an interactive view of the artwork Ejiri in Suruga Province from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai powered by The New York Times.
To know more
Books
- Mazzanti, P. & Sani, M (2021): Emotions and Learning in Museums. Berlin: NEMO.
- Roussou, M; Pujol, L; Katifori, A; Chrysanthi, A; Perry, S & Vayanou, M (2015): The museum as digital storyteller: Collaborative participatory creation of interactive digital experiences. Available on “https://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-museum-as-digital-storyteller-collaborative-participatory-creation-of-interactive-digital-experiences/” [Viewed: 4 April 2021].
Projects
It aims to research, design, develop and evaluate methods and tools that can support the cultural and creative industries in creating narratives which draw on this power of ’emotive storytelling’.
It aims to promote technology to help marginalized individuals and communities in society through inclusive storytelling.
The researchers have developed some pilot programs in Paris, Lisbon, and Barcelona.
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