ENGL4837W: Digital Storytelling (48297)

Hallman Martini, Rebecca

TR 12:30 PM

Park Hall 0149


In this class, we will investigate digital storytelling, both as readers and writers of stories. We will explore how modes–visual, aural, and alphabetic—work together to create meaning in digital spaces and what particular factors need to be considered when composing in these environments. In addition to exploring digital rhetoric and a variety of methods for digital storytelling (including (auto)ethnography, scrapbooking, archival research, etc.), we will also experiment with various digital tools, and produce our own multimodal texts with attention to genre, media, purpose, and audience. Students will compose websites, podcasts, short video documentaries, and other multimodal projects of their choice. No previous experience with digital storytelling is necessary. Course texts include works by scholars, journalists, and community artist/activists such as Joe Lambert’s (2018) Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Communities, John Biewen and Alexa Dilworth’s Reality Radio: Telling Stories in Sound (2017), Alexandra Hidalgo’s Cámara Retórica: A Feminist Filmmaking Methodology for Rhetoric and Composition (2017), and Kurt and Kremena’s Passing (2019)among others.