Storytelling and Story-gathering Resources, Tools and Examples
Some thoughts on inclusive digital storytelling
- 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
Canadian Museum for Immigration at Pier 1 - Digital Storytelling Project