[Air-L] New book on personal Digital Storytelling

[Knut Lundby]

Dear Colleagues,
you may be interested in this new book on personal Digital Storytelling:

"Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in  
New Media"
Edited by Knut Lundby (Peter Lang)

Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on "me"  
flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling  
workshops. The resulting digital stories could be called "mediatized  
stories." This book deals with these self-representational stories,  
aiming to understand the transformations in the age-old practice of  
storytelling that have become possible with the new, digital media.

Among the contributors to this volume are Nick Couldry, Kirsten  
Drotner, Nancy Thumim, David Gauntlett, James V. Wertsch, Ola Erstad,  
Glynda A. Hull and John Hartley. The book draws upon the "Mediatized  
Stories" project www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/ and also relates  
to the research on digital storytelling at QUT in Australia  
www.cci.edu.au

Says Charles Ess, AoIR president: "Contributors address current  
discussions concerning media and identity, the democratizing  
potential of new media, as well as significant debates regarding how  
we best theorize 'media' and 'mediatization'. This is a 'must-read'  
collection for anyone interested in global perspectives on narrative,  
new media, and the larger impacts and potentials of digital  
technologies on both our individual and collective lives as de facto  
global citizens."

www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/publications
www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=310273&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1

Best wishes
Knut Lundby
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Project leader MEDIATIZED STORIES
www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/