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
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
--
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