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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.
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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) |
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| Gerhart_Partnerships in Meaning-Making.pdf |
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