Mediatisation and Institutions of Public Memory: Digital Storytelling and the Apology.

TitleMediatisation and Institutions of Public Memory: Digital Storytelling and the Apology.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsJean Burgess, Helen Klaebe, Kelly McWilliam
JournalAustralian Historical Studies
Volume41
Issue2
Pagination149-165
ISSN1031461X
Abstract

Institutions of public memory are increasingly undertaking co-creative media initiatives in which community members create content with the support of institutional expertise and resources. This paper discusses one such initiative: the State Library of Queensland's 'Responses to the Apology', which used a collaborative digital storytelling methodology to co-produce seven short videos capturing individual responses to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2008 'Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples'. In examining this program, we are interested not only in the juxtaposition of 'ordinary' responses to an 'official' event, but also in how the production and display of these stories might also demonstrate a larger mediatisation of public memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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'Accession Number: 51744089; Burgess, Jean; Klaebe, Helen; McWilliam, Kelly; Issue Info: Jun2010, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p149; Thesaurus Term: INDIGENOUS peoples; Subject Term: COLLECTIVE memory; Subject Term: DIGITAL media -- Social aspects; Subject Term: LIBRARIES & the Internet; Subject Term: APOLOGIZING; Subject: AUSTRALIA; People: RUDD, Kevin, 1957-; Number of Pages: 17p; Document Type: Article'

DOI10.1080/10314611003716861
Short TitleMediatisation and Institutions of Public Memory