The ethical complexities of sponsored digital storytelling

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ID12601994
AuthorsLisa Dush (0000-0001-8336-8617, DePaul University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume16
Issue6
Pages627-640
Publication date2012-10-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1367877912459142
OpenAlexW2038090787
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited20

This article articulates key ethical issues that may arise in sponsored digital storytelling initiatives, projects wherein participants’ stories are used to promote the organization that subsidized their training. Analyzing a digital story from a public health project in the US, the article suggests that sponsored digital storytelling initiatives require participants, facilitators, and those within sponsoring organizations to make complicated ethical judgments about recruiting storytellers, the role of storytellers in the production process, and if and how to represent proximate others in stories. Critical concepts from life writing and documentary studies are used to explore these issues

Art · Digital Storytelling · Engineering ethics · Ethical issues · Key (lock · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Sociology · Storytelling · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Engineering · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media

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