In reading the article, "At Last: Youth Culture and Digital Media: New Literacies for New Times", the question was posed in my mind about what the role of digital storytelling is in modern education. The article addresses the different forms of representing a story. It addresses the use of sound and word in a story and what it projects onto the audience.
Having made a digital story before, I can speak from experience in saying that the use of a digital story is much more than a different medium through which one can tell a story. The juxtaposition between audio and images evokes a whole different kind of emotion within the audience. When one reads an essay, often the voice of the writer is not fully understood or recognized. There is something about actually hearing the voice of the author that makes it different for the viewer. Also, often the intentions of certain words or remarks in writing are fuzzy so when they are presented in a digital story, it is much more clear as to what their point was.
The point that I drew the most from in the article was the following, "we can helpfully draw on interdisciplinary insights from fields such as communications theory, film studies, visual culture, semiotics, and the ethnography of media," (331). Writing can often be two dimensional; there are words on a page and the reader is reading those words. In a digital story, so many more themes and elements can be brought to light that it brings a whole new idea to the story.
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