‘The Times They Are a Changin’: Digital Storytelling as a Catalyst for an Ideological Revolution in Health-Care Research

Abstract

Written from a health-care perspective, the focus of this chapter is to discuss the evolving role of digital storytelling, as a research method. The chapter explores how digital stories can be viewed as a qualitative response to the "big data" approaches to research which are critical in the information age. It will suggest ways in which fuzzy logic can be used to support the transition of digital stories from learning tool into a data collection method, then into a research methodology and explore how this evolution can contribute to the emergence of a new research ideology. [For the complete volume, "Digital Storytelling in Higher Education: International Perspectives. Digital Education and Learning," see ED613403.]