Digital community storytelling as a sociopolitical critical device

Carmen Gregori-signes and Maria Alcantud-diaz

Journal of Community Positive Practices, 2016, issue 1, 19-36

Abstract: This article analyses 40 community digital stories drawing upon the principles of corpus-based critical discourse studies (Baker et al., 2008). The stories are analysed with the intention of testing if they may be classified as examples of socio-political digital stories. Sociopolitical digital stories are described here as a tool that individuals may use in order to bring forward issues that may concern and affect democracy (Couldry, 2008), social welfare and social stability; and may serve to ease the communication, interaction and exchange of information about conflictive social practices. The stories analysed can be considered timid examples of what socio-political individual digital storytelling might do for society, thus helping, at least potentially, to democratise the exchange of ideas between the members of our society.

Keywords: digital storytelling; socio-political; Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis; appraisal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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