Narrating Chinese Youth Mobilities

Digital Storytelling and Media Citizenship
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-80085-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Chinese Perspectives on Journalism and Communication

This book presents the first major initiative to introduce workshop-based Digital Storytelling to digitally dynamic and engaged youth, both in China and internationally.

Conceived nearly three decades ago, the participatory and creative practice of Digital Storytelling has been embraced by public institutions, advocates, and researchers as a media democratisation intervention that empowers non-professionals to actively contribute to the media. Drawing on data from ten workshops conducted with Chinese young migrants in Australia and China, this work investigates the extent to which Chinese youth's participation in Digital Storytelling constitutes media citizenship in both home and destination societies. The findings show that their digital self-expressions construct "alternative stories" that resist dominant discourses of place, mobility, education, and language. This book provides nuanced insights into the experiences of young educational migrants through bottom-up autobiographical narratives. As the first major study of its kind after decades of China's reform era, it sheds light on Chinese society from a unique perspective on the interrelationships between state-mandated subjectivity, personal aspirations, and digitally mediated narrativity.

The title will be of value to professionals in the field of Digital Storytelling and will also appeal to students and scholars interested in Chinese youth culture, educational mobility, media citizenship, digital literacy, and Chinese migration.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, He

Gong, Qian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Digital Storytelling, Mobility, and Media Citizenship 2. Conceptualising Digital Storytelling as Practice and Method 3. Designing the Research 4. Narrating Transnationality by Chinese Young People in Australia 5. Reskilling through Self-representation: Empowering Chinese International Students through Digital Storytelling 6. The First Trial of the Digital Storytelling Workshop for Young Migrants in China 7. Autobiographical Storytelling as Counter-Narrative to the Myth of “the South” 8. Is It Worth It?: Youth Mobility and the Consumption of International Higher Education by the Chinese Middle Class 9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

He Zhang is a lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication at Northwest University in China. She earned her PhD in Media Studies from Curtin University, Australia. Her areas of interest include participatory practices, youth mobilities, and intercultural communication.

Qian Gong is a senior lecturer at Curtin University, Australia. She researches Chinese media and popular culture. She is also the co-editor of Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia (Routledge, 2023).