Researching Digital Storytelling – Methods and Applications

This two-day seminar on Researching Digital Storytelling is organized by Professors Anna De Fina (Department of Italian), Marianna Ryshina-Pankova (Department of German), and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King’s College, London) thanks to a generous International Collaborative Grant from Georgetown University’s Office of Global Engagement. The detailed event program can be found here. 

Digital storytelling has revolutionized the way people talk about their lives, construct and convey identities, share news and form communities. The wide accessibility of online platforms and tools for sharing content, including the feature of stories on all major platforms, as well as the availability of smartphones, allow millions of people every day to share their stories and to embellish & complement them with all kinds of semiotic resources. These conditions in which stories are told and circulated have produced many changes in their structure, features and functions, compared with oral, text-only, and face-to-face storytelling. Digital storytelling has also become a very important resource in the field of education, where it is being successfully used for advancing literacies and for increasing student involvement in different kinds of classrooms all over the world.

The objective of the seminar is to stimulate an exchange of ideas based on research by scholars in different fields about the ways digital stories are constructed and function in different online environments and the kinds of methodologies proposed to study them.

Invited Speakers: Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King’s College, London), Stefan Iversen (Aarhus University), Ana Oskoz (University of Maryland, BC), Polina Vinogradova (American University)

This event will be held October 18-19, 2024. Please register through Eventbrite here.