Digital story telling gives voice to Sydney's senior Blacktown legends

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Abstract

![CDATA[This paper captures a new frontier of digital storytelling by senior citizens in the Blacktown Memories project. Third year journalism students from Western Sydney University have been working on this project. As digital natives these young adults incessantly update their profiles on social media with the places they have been and seen, eaten at, what they are wearing and what their next stop will be. The students are empowering the seniors by recording and retelling their past experiences and memories as video stories. The students listen, soak in the narratives, understand and present the hi/stories with engaged and collaborative research; value adding to the evidence with a variety of sources, while creating a renewed interest in the future of digital journalism. The stories, captured as narratives during interviews, are backed by full transcriptions and photos. The project facilitates a live, interactive platform; allowing comment and sharing other narratives on Blacktown, from across the globe. This paper considers journalism’s story telling where construction usually stretches evidence to conform to contours of a skeleton theme; therefore “We must leave out the details that don’t fit, and invent some that make things work better.” It contributes to understanding the changing media landscape, which gives voice to the voiceless.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Journalism and Mass Communications (JMComm 2017), 9th - 10th October, 2017, Singapore
PublisherGlobal Science and Technology Forum
Pages134-140
Number of pages7
Publication statusPublished - 2017
EventInternational Conference on Journalism and Mass Communications -
Duration: 1 Jan 2017 → …

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Journalism and Mass Communications
Period1/01/17 → …

Keywords

  • digital storytelling
  • oral history
  • Blacktown (N.S.W.)
  • journalism

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