DIGC330 Digital AsiaWeek 4

Digital Storytelling, Development and Modernity

Digital Storytelling Asia: Stories and Business

http://digitalstorytellingasia.com/stories-for-good/

Private meets Publichttps://artinlove.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/digital-storytelling-joie-de-vivre/

Digital Storytelling as Community Co-creation

“community co-creation could be considered the convergence of memory, community, narrative and interaction…While some of the questions of new media revolved around opportunities in representation – hence the rise of visualization – the contribution of new media would become their ability to produce new and otherwise unrealizable outcomes for social communication” (Russo and Watkins, 2005: 4-5).

Cultural Experience as Triadic Relationship

Cyworld: South Korea

• South Korean social network operated by SK Communications. Also in China and Vietnam.

• Members develop friendships with one another by using a ‘minihompy’ (or mini-homepage).

• Minihompies successful due to people’s dissatisfaction with individual homepages. The latter were like stranded islands.

• Minihomepies had components like visitor logs and comments, which provided a means of contact, while features such as the diary and bulletin boards allowed for individual expression.

Cyworld 3D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEup7KYcO5Y&list=PLfV9Zn3Ubt_cAxImp3ZChpKlBuazOPS6B

Cyworld and Globalisation

Cyworld reached it’s tipping point in 2010-11, with something between 20 and 25M active users in South Korea – about half of the total population of the country.

But over the course of 2011 Cyworld started losing active users, due to a series of global and local trends:• The explosion of Facebook in the whole Asia-Pacific area

(nowadays about 25% of total FB users come from Asia).• The huge growth of smartphone users, thus the need for more

flexible platforms.• The rise of a strong Korean start-up scene, demanding more

globally-connected social media.

Mirror Art Group: Thailand

• Now known as Mirror Foundation, based in Northern Thailand.

• Helps hill tribe people with issues such as citizenship, drug abuse, erosion of culture and the trafficking of women and children through several projects.

• Website very popular, especially effective for connecting indigenous people to the political mainstream.

Bannok TV

• Positive role models for hill tribe people.

• Use of archives: a multimedia collection documenting traditional ceremonies, songs, customs, costumes, farming processes, weaving methods and hunting techniques

• Group makes educational documentaries for hill tiribe people and lowland Thais alike, allowing the viewers to take pride in their culture or discover a beautiful culture within their own borders.

• Made by the Foundation in collaboration with the local youth.

Volunteering Stories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTEMcZg3It8

Resources: Digital Storytelling in Asia Pacific

• Dyne.org, free software foundry: https://www.dyne.org/• EngageMedia: http://www.engagemedia.org/• Papuan Voices: http://www.papuanvoices.net/• Khoj Workshop (International Artists Association):

http://khojworkshop.org/• Machizo: http://www.machizo.com/aboutus• Pad.ma (Public Access Digital Media Archive):

http://pad.ma/• TVEAP (Television for Education):

http://tveap.wordpress.com/

Asia in Australia: Natalie Tran

Community Channel

“Tran's page, communitychannel, has long been the most subscribed Australian YouTube channel of all time, with 740,682 subscribers and more than 270 million views on her videos to date. Worldwide, she is 23rd most subscribed of all time” (Sydney Morning Herald, 2010)

Old People and Technology:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=763oGUbbvok&list=UUKHi7M_11VJmLZSq4WNHSkg

Asian Diaspora and Digital Storytelling

• Notley, T., & Tacchi, J. (2005). Online youth networks: Researching the experiences of ‘peripheral’ young people in using new media tools for creative participation and representation, 3CMedia. Journal of Community, Citizen’s and Third Sector Media, 1(1), 73-81.

• Are Asian diasporas in Australia/Australian media ‘peripheral’?

Global Diasporic Storytelling

http://www.youtube.com/user/IISuperwomanII

Individual Blogs (Week 4)

• Pick a group that is ‘peripheral’ in some sense in an Asian or Asian diasporic research site of your choice.

• What kinds of digital media do they use to give voice to their own demands and stories?

• What is your experience of viewing/hearing these stories?