Mediatized Stories - Mediation Perspectives on Digital Storytelling among Youth
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storytelling, mediation, youth, identity, self-representation
Overview
The project researches self-representation through various forms of digital storytelling. This dynamic is studied with theories of mediation and mediatization across media studies and education. The project focuses on youth, as young people tend to be innovative in their use of digital media. This international collaboration encompasses a range of studies in different parts of the world.
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The project explores how people - youth in particular - use self-representation in digital storytelling to shape and share their lives, and tries to understand these processes through theories of mediation and mediatization across media studies and the field of education.
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- Undertake a theoretical clarification of contrasting conceptualisations of mediation and mediatization.
- Analyse the socio-cultural dynamics of mediation/mediatization when people shape and share their lives in digital storytelling.
- Analyse how self-representation in digital storytelling may build competence and media literacy through informal learning.
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