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Date: | Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:10:42 -0700 |
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Dear OurMedia/NuestrosMedios Colleagues,
You might be interested in my article, "Peace-Building Through
Listening, Digital Storytelling and Community Media in Cyprus,"
published in the Spring 2011 issue of the /Global Media Journal:
Mediterranean Edition./ An open access journal, /GMJ: ME/ is located at
http://globalmedia.emu.edu.tr/
-- select "current issue" on the left side.
The article, intended for practitioners and scholars, describes the use
of self-reflexivity for peace-building purposes in Cyprus in the fall of
2010, channeled through digital storytelling and community-based media.
With support from the Cyprus Fulbright Commission and the Cyprus
Community Media Centre (CCMC), classes and workshops in digital
storytelling were held across the island. My project, "Digital
Storytelling as a Method of Self-Reflexivity, Oral History, and
Community-Building" included participants from Turkish Cypriot and Greek
Cypriot communities on the divided island, as well as non-Cypriot story
makers. Based on the critical pedagogy framework of Brazilian educator
Paulo Freire with implementation through communication scholar Brenda
Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology, the project included concepts and
practices from digital storytelling and community-based media.
The stories created during the workshops are available on the "Cyprus
Stories" channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com/CyprusStories
<http://www.youtube.com/CyprusStories>
Playlists on the right side of the channel screen include: #1: All
stories from 2010 workshops; #2-5: the 2010 stories organized by
institution; #6: stories from 2008; #8: stories from 2011 Gorilla
Activism Youth Camp workshop
The project has continued in 2011 with support from the Cyprus Fulbright
Commission and the Bicommunal Support Program of the U.S. Embassy in
Nicosia.
cheers,
John
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john w. higgins, phd
u.s. fulbright scholar, cyprus, fall 2010
adjunct instructor of rhetoric and language
university of san francisco usa
jhiggins [at] mediaprof [dot] org
www.mediaprof.org/d-storytelling.html
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