Abstract
Abstract This article describes how - in the processes of responding to participatory storytelling practices - community, public service, and to a lesser extent, commercial media institutions are themselves negotiated and changed. Although there are significant variations in the conditions, durability, extent, motivations and quality of these developments and their impacts, they nonetheless increase the possibilities and pathways of participatory media culture. This description first frames digital storytelling as a ‘co-creative’ media practice. It then discusses the role of community arts and cultural development (CACD) practitioners and networks as co-creative media intermediaries, and then considers their influence in Australian broadcast and Internet media. It looks at how participatory storytelling methods are evolving in the Australian context and explores some of the implications for cultural inclusion arising from a shared interest in ‘co-creative’ media methods and approaches.
Highlights
Digital Storytelling provides a useful starting point for thinking about the making of participatory media culture
Australia boasts two public service broadcasters: the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that deliver a multiplicity of radio, TV and online services
Funding agencies such as the Australia council for the Arts have made considerable investments in co-creative media and want to improve their knowledge of the extent and scope of co-creative media in order to better understand the impact of this investment, for example, how it might contribute to the development of participatory media cultures
Summary
Digital Storytelling provides a useful starting point for thinking about the making of participatory media culture. Community-based arts practitioners, cultural development agencies and community media producers have been key advocates of participatory media culture and have driven its development, diffusion and adoption through various means, including the development of co-creative media production methods such as digital storytelling These practitioner networks are purposively embedded in an open-ended variety of communities. ACMI was an early adopter of digital storytelling in its public program activities, and had an important role in propagating the uptake of co-creative media in Australian arts and public culture agencies and networks, such as libraries and museums (Simondson 2009) It has hosted two international digital storytelling conferences (the most recent in association with the industry partners and universities in the research project reported here) and trained a generation of community media arts practitioners in co-creative methods. Broadcasting, public service broadcasting, commercial broadcasting services, and an expanding array of new community media arts configurations
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