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  • About
    • Cultural Sustainability
    • What is Digital Storytelling?
    • Digital Storytelling Resources
    • Research Methods
    • Contact
  • Saving What Matters Project
    • Goucher College Heritage Stories
    • Goucher College Fieldwork Reflections
    • University of Sarajevo Student Stories
  • Digital Storytelling Practitioners
    • Culturally-informed Practice
    • Space to Reflect
    • Scholarship & Stories
  • Cultural Researchers & Knowledge Producers
    • A Digital Story Approach to Research
    • Research Design Principles
    • Scholarship & Stories
  • Community Partners & Storytellers
    • A Digital Story Approach to Community
    • Scholarship & Stories
  • Crowdsourcing DST Publications
Collaborative Digital Storytelling Hub

A Digital Story Approach to
​community-based Research 

The digital storytelling approach suggests a method for engaging community members as partner knowledge producers to ensure that research design, process and outcomes arise from the community (i.e., are community-based), include the community (i.e., are culturally-informed) and serve the community’s goals.  
Through digital storytelling, researchers can engage community members “as participant observers in their own lives” (Gubrium et al. 2016).  For example, digital storytelling has been used as an ethnographic approach that involves the community in surfacing salient research questions through story (e.g., Gubrium 2009; Njeru, et al. 2015) – questions that are sometimes like water to fish…concealed in the taken-for-granted beliefs and value systems that communities are unlikely to articulate directly.
ADDITIONAL BENEFITS
RESEARCH DESIGN PRINCIPLES
SCHOLARSHIP & STORIES
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DIGITAL STORIES CAN HAVE A DUAL PURPOSE OF DEVELOPING STRENGTH AND SELF-AWARENESS WITHIN THE GROUP, AND ALSO THE PURPOSE OF PORTRAYING THE FUNDAMENTAL HUMANITY OF THE GROUP TO OTHERS. (digital storytelling FACILTATOR)
​Read the report to learn more....  
Gerhart_Partnerships in Meaning-Making.pdf
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