Digital Race Theory? Racial Narratives, Digital Storytelling, and Civility
Location
Beaman A&B
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
25-9-2012 11:00 AM
Description
Digital storytelling, a multi-modal narrative genre blending image and sound, has become an important venue for practitioners to develop critical perspectives in service of civility. In this presentation, Jason Lovvorn will examine this potential by way of Critical Race Theory (CRT), a theoretical lens that privileges narrative as a means to social justice. Foremost, he examines how digital storytelling serves as a practice-based testing ground for CRT. Using two publicly available digital stories as examples, he draws together theory and practice, and within this mix, he considers how digital compositions can offer important counter-narratives regarding race at the same time they argue for a more civilized and just society.
Recommended Citation
Lovvorn, Jason, "Digital Race Theory? Racial Narratives, Digital Storytelling, and Civility" (2012). Humanities Symposium. 26.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2012/2012/26
Digital Race Theory? Racial Narratives, Digital Storytelling, and Civility
Beaman A&B
Digital storytelling, a multi-modal narrative genre blending image and sound, has become an important venue for practitioners to develop critical perspectives in service of civility. In this presentation, Jason Lovvorn will examine this potential by way of Critical Race Theory (CRT), a theoretical lens that privileges narrative as a means to social justice. Foremost, he examines how digital storytelling serves as a practice-based testing ground for CRT. Using two publicly available digital stories as examples, he draws together theory and practice, and within this mix, he considers how digital compositions can offer important counter-narratives regarding race at the same time they argue for a more civilized and just society.
Comments
Convo: AL