Presentation given at CIRN 2012 on my PhD early analysis

1. Daffodil terrorism: The dangers of
homogenised storytelling
Sarah Copeland

2. Introduction

3. Barbed boundaries…

4. A question of community

5. Transforming community
“paradise lost”
Home &
Kinship ‘Community’:
nostalgic, bourgeois
& anachronistic
Work &
Livelihood

6. A geo-physical community intervention
Social Network Analysis:
Including strength of ties
Voice:
“inclusion and participation in social, political, and economic
processes, meaning making, economy and expression” (Tacchi, 2009, p.169).
Participatory:
A culture that affords low barriers to artistic expression or civic engagement
(Jenkins, 2006) alongside a commitment to empowerment through critical
educational approaches.

7. Digital Storytelling
Key to these personal stories are the following
‘small-scale’ characteristics (Lundby, 2008):
• few minutes duration
• low budget
• personal narrative

8. Community Digital Storytelling
1. Recruitment;
2. Interview;
3. Story circle;
4. Creative workshops;
5. Share.
This adapted method is referred to as community digital storytelling (CDST)

9. The CDST case study
Table 1: CDST participation in location A9E
Group A9E
Age group Age range No. No. No.
Participants in Participants in completed
story circle workshops stories
Younger 14-19 3 3 3
Middle aged 20-60 2 2 2
Older 60+ 3 3 2
Table 2: CDST participation in location B9H
Group B9H
Age group Age range No. No. No.
Participants in Participants in completed
story circle workshops stories
Younger 11-19 3 2 1*
Middle aged 20-60 3 3 2*
Older 60+ 2 2 1
*Inter-generational collaboration between two ‘younger’ participants and one ‘middle-aged’ participant, tallied in the ‘younger’ category.

10. Daffodil Terrorism & other stories

11. CDST reflections
• Range of participatory media techniques
• Mandate
• Homophily - enabler or oppressor of voice
• Age - identified both heterogeneity and bridging capital
• Normative behaviour
– reciprocity (lack of criticism)
– trustworthiness (othering)
– negotiations around power-relations (challenging authority)

12. Two other CI approaches
Community deliberation
De Cindio, Marco, & Ripamonti (2007) suggest that Deliberative
Community Networks allow citizens to use ICT to debate topics
in different participatory spaces.
Community learning
Day (2011) argues that the informal educational practices found
in community learning are key to community empowerment.

13. A framework for CI
Plan
Assess Create
Community
As illustrated by
Learning Engage Reflect
Partnership Day (2011)
Choice of
Modality
Issue
Framing Create Based on DCN set out by
Community
Deliberation Participant Deliberate De Cindio, Marco, &
Network Selection Ripamonti (2007)
Story
Circle
Creative
Community Interview
Workshop
Digital
Recruit Share
Storytelling

14. Summary
Intervention:
An inter-generational learning event as a case study where
community digital storytelling is explored as a method for
engaging dialogue and social action.
A matrix CI approach is suggested to overcome some of the
difficulties encountered.