The innerworkings of digital storytelling

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2023

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International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (IJOPCD)

Abstract

Traditionally, storytelling was used for entertainment and the transfer of know-how. The advent of digital media gave rise to new possibilities for telling stories. When the context is, for example, to relay information about how to protect a person from COVID-19, it is referred to as serious storytelling. The main objective of this research was to establish what skills and attributes would be required for someone to autonomously “tell” a serious digital story in a resource constrained environment. A systematic literature review of peer reviewed articles resulted in a knowledge bank of articles. Atlas Ti was used to qualitatively analyse these articles. Even though a resource constrained environment may be a limiting factor for telling a digital story, this research has found that emotional support, digital inclusion, as well as assisting individuals with their devices, can pave the way to autonomous digital storytelling.

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Affordances, Competences, Digital affinity, Digital inclusion, Digital landscape

Citation

Daniels, A.D. and Venter, I.M., 2023. The Innerworkings of Digital Storytelling. International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (IJOPCD), 13(1), pp.1-18.