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Accepted Paper:

Digital dreaming: The practice of digital storytelling with Indigenous youth  
Zoe Dawkins (University of Queensland)

Paper short abstract:

This paper explores the ways in which digital storytelling can be utilised as an autoethnographic practice to develop the confidence of young Indigenous people. It explores the link between self-expression through creative practice and social and emotional wellbeing.

Paper long abstract:

This paper will investigate the ways in which autoethnography can develop the confidence of young Indigenous people through self-expression. This paper will present the first outcomes of a digital storytelling project implemented in a local high school in urban Australia, working with Indigenous students. Armed with handheld digital cameras and equipped with basic skills in storyboarding and filmmaking, the students will participate in a guided digital storytelling program over 18 weeks from July to November 2008. Building on previous research undertaken with youth at risk in Vietnam, the project adopts and expands on creative development practices such as PhotoVoice utilised by development practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region. Through the presentation of digital stories created by Indigenous students participating in the project, this paper aims to explore the ways in which creative practice can be utilised to foster the social and emotional wellbeing of young people.

Panel P51
Representing knowledges
  Session 1