Digital storytelling and place-attachment A 'lens' through which to analyse people's values in the Drought Risk and You (DRY) Project Dr Antonia Liguori Loughborough University
Digital storytelling and place-attachment
A 'lens' through which to analyse people's values in the Drought Risk and You (DRY) Project
Dr Antonia Liguori
Loughborough University
Digital Storytelling as a form of engagement
We think of storytelling as
� “a means of sharing knowledge, building trust, and cultivating identity” (Cianca et al 2014)
� a sort of “holistic thinking” (Meadows, 2009)
Keywords: authority, authenticity Question: what is ‘unreliable’?
Place as the background to stories and memories
We ask how might digital storytelling triangulate between personal experience, place-attachment and crisis (drought) response.
Keywords: local distinctiveness, community of interest
Question: is the ‘digital’ element of storytelling only a tool?
Multiple narrative approaches in DRY Project
Keywords: translational tool, experiential knowledge Question: Are we able to to subvert the knowledge hierarchies?
DS as a way of validating a Sentiment Analysis on Social Media
Twitter users respond almost instantly to natural disasters (Bruns, Burgess, Crawford, & Shaw, 2012), political unrest (Gaffney, 2010; Tonkin, Pfeiffer & Tourte, 2012), or other breaking news.
� Keywords: ‘nanostories’, human behaviour
� Question: how can we inform people about drought? [proactivity vs reactivity]
Decision-making tools with an online archive of personal and social memories in 7 river catchments
“The earth is a form of writing,
a ‘geography’ of which we had forgotten that
we ourselves are the authors”
(George Perec, 1998)
Photo published on Flickr by A. Siegel
Drought Risk and You is a research funded by
Natural and Environment Research Council NERC Economic and Social Research Council ESRC
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EPSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBSRC
Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRC
http://dryproject.co.uk/
Thank you!