27.212, FYI: Call for Papers on Digital Storytelling

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Subject: 27.212, FYI: Call for Papers on Digital Storytelling

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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:05:39
From: Isabel Alonso-Belmonte [isabel.alonso at uam.es]
Subject: Call for Papers on Digital Storytelling

We are inviting contributions to an edited volume on: 
Linguistic and multimodal approaches to the analysis of digital stories

Editors:
Isabel Alonso-Belmonte (isabel.alonso at uam.es). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
(Spain)
M Dolores Porto-Requejo (mdolores.porto at uah.es). Universidad de Alcalá de
Henares (Spain)

Short Description:

Digital stories are brief, multimodal narratives by which people who are not
professional in literature nor computer technologies attend to a workshop and
learn to create a short narrative, combining digital images and photos with
their own recorded voice and then publishing them on the Internet. Digital
storytelling arises as a genre from the need to share personal stories with
other people and to ''go digital''. Digital stories were born in California at
the Centre for Digital Storytelling in the 1990s and has since spread far and
wide. Unfortunately, current research on digital storytelling is not abundant
and has mainly focused on the study of the role that these personal narratives
have in the construction of the self and cultural identity and on their
analysis as a societal phenomenon with democratising potential (Burguess,
2006; Lundby, 2008; Lambert 2013). There are also studies which focus on their
structure from a Post-Labovian perspective (Porto Requejo & Alonso Belmonte,
2014), their emergence as a new multimodal genre (Alexander & Levin, 2008;
Alonso Belmonte et al. 2013) and on an increasing number of practical
applications, especially in advertising (Gleason 2012; Handler Miller 2013)
and for pedagogical, educational purposes (McLellan 2007; Roland 2006;
Rossiter & Garcia 2010, among others).

Contributions:

This volume intends to bring together a number of international experts
working on digital storytelling from a linguistic and multimodal perspective.
We invite empirically grounded contributions from any theoretical framework
(Systemic Functional Grammar, Language for Specific Purposes, Critical
Discourse Analysis, Applied Linguistics, Stylistics, Cognitive Linguistics,
etc.) on different strands about digital stories, such as: cross-cultural
approaches, intergenerational communication, the multimodal expression of
emotions, voices and identities, the use of semiotic resources in digital
genres… We are also interested in different methodological approaches to the
study of digital narratives and in issues of transcription and annotation of
multi-semiotic events. Of course, suggestions on further lines and topics of
study are also welcome.

If you are interested, please send a tentative title by February 15 to
isabel.alonso at uam.es and mdolores.porto at uah.es. By March 1 please send us an
abstract (300-600 words) referring to framework, methods and results, and also
indicating how your contribution relates to the overall contents of the volume
as sketched above. We will check your contribution for cohesion with the rest
of the volume and notify you within two weeks whether we will ask you to send
in a complete paper.

If you need any additional information, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Isabel Alonso-Belmonte (isabel.alonso at uam.es)
M Dolores Porto-Requejo (mdolores.porto at uah.es)

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

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