Project leaders: Glynda A. Hull and Mark Evan Nelson
Glynda Hull and other researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, has been collaborating in the DUSTY projectwith local communities and educators from several countries to foster and study the production of mediatized stories. Of particular interest have been the ways in which young people use multi-media and multi-modality to represent themselves and their social worlds, and the possibilities for connecting youth through their digital work across racial, linguistic, cultural, geographic and political borders. Hull and her team has studied youth's mediatized stories as "identity artifacts," tracing how their digital stories, music, poetry, and lyrics, in concert with their participation in international and local collaborations, influence their conceptions and representations of self, family, and other. The research part of the DUSTY project is now finished.
West Oakland in California where the DUSTY project is based.
See video interview with Glynda Hull on digital storytelling from the Childhoods conference at the University of Oslo 2005.
Publications
Nelson, M.E & G. Hull (2008) Self-presentation through multimedia: A Bakhtinian perspective on digital storytelling. In K. Lundby (Ed.) Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in New Media. New York: Peter Lang.
Nelson, M.E., Hull, G.A. & Roche-Smith, J. (2008). Taking, and mistaking, the show on the road: Multimedia self-presentation and social interaction. Written Communication 25(4), 415-440.
Nelson, M.E. (2008). Multimodal synthesis and the 'voice' of the multimedia author in a Japanese EFL context. Innovations in Language Learning and Teaching 2(1), 65-82.