Digital Stories
What is a Digital Story?
Digital Storytelling is a short form of digital film production that allows everyone to record and share their own story. Digital Storytelling involves the production of short stories based on a joint exploration of a specific topic.
A Digital Story combines narrative elements (e.g. voice recordings) with digital content (e.g. video, picture/photo, music etc.) It can be used for any topic to tell a story or present an idea. A digital story lasts on average two to five minutes and is supported by images.
Digital Stories and the "App-solute News" project
The research project deals with the question of what effects the digitalization of newspapers has on younger and older people. Are attitudes towards it age-dependent? What fears, difficulties, but also opportunities is this digitisation associated with?
Intergenerational teams of students and seniors will be formed. These are trained in workshops specially prepared for this purpose. After discovering the app and the e-papers together, they work on their own Digital Story in the company of the project team and thus create an image-based narrative that is documented audio-visually. Students and seniors will talk about the everyday action of reading newspapers in the past and today, their perceptions, ideas and potential fears during the transition from analogue to digital newspaper reading, the difficulties in the application, preferences in dealing with technologies and age-independent user-friendliness of the medium.
