Critical junctures

Place-based storytelling in the Big Stories, Small Towns participatory documentary project

Bibliographic Data

ID5715799
AuthorsMike Potter (0000-0002-1681-6341, James Cook University, corresponding author), Martin Potter
Year2017
Volume164
Issue1
Pages117-127
Publication date2017-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia International Australia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1329-878X • E-ISSN: 2200-467X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1329878x17694754
OpenAlexW2592186163
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

Since 2008, the multi-year and multi-platform Big Stories, Small Towns documentary project (bigstories.com.au) has facilitated the telling, recording, archiving and dissemination of auto/biographical narratives in Australia, Cambodia, West Papua, Malaysia and Indonesia. Through this work, a critical juncture has been identified in the mediascape where reconstruction can materialise. While a level of interconnectivity has always underpinned storytelling within communities, shifting global dynamics and new mediums allow for an alternative examination of multi-layered communities and the complex relations between people, social backgrounds, technology/media and place. I argue that this represents a fundamental shift away from a centralised vision of storymaking (i.e. author/documenter-centric) to a collectivised storytelling practice. Thus, this article moves attention from the rhetoric of texts to practices of community organisation and the technological and embodied material relations, which aspire to produce a collectively enacted sense of place and identity

Art · Citizen journalism · Journalism · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Rhetoric · Sociology · Storytelling · Digital Storytelling and Education · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media

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