Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in New Media

Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on �me�, flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling workshops.The resulting digital stories could be called �mediatized stories�. This book deals with these self-representational stories, aiming to understand the transformations in the age-old practice of storytelling that have become possible with the new, digital media. Its approach is interdisciplinary, exploring how the mediation or mediatization processes of digital storytelling can be grasped and offering a sociological perspective of media studies and a socio-cultural take of the educational sciences. Aesthetic and literary perspectives on narration as well as questioning from an informatics perspective are also included. Additional ISBNs 9781433102745, 9781433139543, 1433102749, 1433139545Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in New Media 2nd Edition and published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. ISBNs for Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories are 9781433139536, 1433139537 and the print ISBNs are 9781433102745, 1433102749. Additional ISBNs include 1433102749, 1433139545, 9781433102745, 9781433139543.