Digital community storytelling as a sociopolitical critical device

  • Carmen Gregori-signes PhD, Lecturer at the Dep. Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, Universitat of Valencia and member of IULMA (Institut Universitari de Llengues modernes APlicades), Valencia, SPAIN.
  • Maria Alcantud-diaz PhD, Lecturer at the Faculty of Education at the University of Valencia (Didactics of Language and Literature, English area) Valencia, SPAIN
Keywords: digital storytelling, socio-political, Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis, appraisal

Abstract

This article analyses 40 community digital stories drawing upon the principles of corpus-based critical discourse studies (Baker et al., 2008). The stories are analysed with the intention of testing if they may be classified as examples of socio-political digital stories. Sociopolitical digital stories are described here as a tool that individuals may use in order to bring forward issues that may concern and affect democracy (Couldry, 2008), social welfare and social stability; and may serve to ease the communication, interaction and exchange of information about conflictive social practices. The stories analysed can be considered timid examples of what socio-political individual digital storytelling might do for society, thus helping, at least potentially, to democratise the exchange of ideas between the members of our society.

Published
2016-09-01
How to Cite
Gregori-signes, C. and Alcantud-diaz, M. (2016) “Digital community storytelling as a sociopolitical critical device”, Journal of Community Positive Practices, 16(1), pp. 19-36. Available at: https://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/view/302 (Accessed: 2July2024).
Issue
No. 1 (2016): JCPP Nr. 1 2016
Section
Articles