• supports voices that are otherwise not heard within a community (due to disability, different approaches, etc.)
• allows connection with others with similar experiences
  • to recognize systemic issues
  • to organize together for change
• story as sanctuary: hearing part of your story in someone else's
  • insight/reflection through others' stories
• foster digital literacy, self-awareness and reflection amongst participants
• can provoke empathy
• makes issues "real" - real people, real problems, therefore real solutions that work
• allows dissemination of stories to those who often can't access them
• captures the history of a community/organization
• captures a point in time
  • could be used to self-assess one's own progress or changes over time
• helps with funding and outreach
• engages people who might not otherwise be able to participate
• facilitates a contribution to something larger - an issue, a collective experience, etc
• One of the ways we get to know new people is by telling stories about ourselves and hearing stories from them
• Some barriers to storytelling
  • Language
  • Culture
  • Modality

• Consider wordless stories such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBCA3iX3bKc or http://www.shauntan.net/books/the-arrival.html
• Stories are also subject to misuse - propaganda, "fake news", politics
  • The story as a weapon
  • Stories and cultural appropriation
• Questions
• How to make it easier for everyone to tell stories?
• How to make it easier for everyone to hear stories?
• How to make it easier to record stories for everyone?
• How to make it easier to share stories with everyone?
• Some things that might be applicable or interesting to explore on this theme
  • Translation
  • Transformation
  • Captioning
  • Nonverbal communication
    • ASL
    • Picture symbols
  • Speech synthesis
  • Speech recognition
  • Augmented / virtual reality
• Guidelines for inclusive storytelling?

(Digital) Story Collections

• Aging Activisms
• Medecins sans Frontieres - Because I'm a Woman - video stories
• Duolingo Documentary - Something Like Home
• Access to Media Education Society (AMES) - DisPLACEment program
• Rooted in Rights

• Shout Your Abortion - Brooklyn NY
• The Guardian - Defender's of Women's Rights Speak Out (storytelling example in embedded video)
• The Center for Digital Storytelling / Storycenter
• Storycenter - Silence Speaks
• LD@School - The Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario’s (LDAO)
• Learning A11y (Audiobooks) - Learning Disability Success Stories
• Mencap UK - The Voice of Learning Disability - Stories
• Project MyValue
• The Live On Movement - Disability Pride, Disability Awareness
• The Dementia Diaries
• Radio Vallena, Columbia
• Philadelphia Assembled - Storytelling as Sanctuary Project
• What Are U Waiting For? The Waiting Room Storytelling Project
• Canadian Museum for Human Rights - Our Canada My Story
• Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center - Life Stories Project
• Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CCASA) - Stories
• Digital Storytelling Toronto

Story-gathering Projects & Resources

Collaborative Story-Gathering Template

Cripping Narrative: Storytelling as Activism - Kim Collins

Storytelling, Imagination and Activism - podcast from Resiliance.org

Aging Activisms - We take up intergenerational activist storytelling as a research methodology and as a way to bring community activists together across generations and movements to share, receive, and record diverse stories of activisms.

Storytelling and Social Change - Panel talk from Stanford Social Innovation Review (January 2020)

Storytelling and Social Change

Department of Imaginary Affairs

Canadian Museum for Human Rights - Share Your Story

I Have Something to Say - Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth Ontario

Rooted in Rights

Community Story Collective

Community Story Strategies

Canadian Museum for Immigration at Pier 1 - Digital Storytelling Project

Methods

Storycenter Listening Station

WITNESS

WITNESS resources for creating videos

Video 4 Change

Tecnologico de Monterrey - EduTrends - Storytelling

Slidestory - creating audio slideshows

SpeakUP! Young Women Share Powerful Stories From Their Own Lives

The Center for Documentary Studies - Duke University

The Youth Noise Network

Storycenter - Public Health and Human Services

Empower Youth Toronto - Digital Storytelling

Story Creation Tools

Memria (paid subscription required)

Storyjumper

WriteReader

Book Creator

Imagine Forest

Litehouse Press

Goodnotes

Twine

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/big-picture-u-t-experts-develop-storytelling-tool-family-photos

Concordia Digital Storytelling Toolbox