Digital storytelling pedagogies, processes and performances: Two case studies

Abstract

This chapter explores the ways that faculty from Brigham Young University and the University of Texas at Austin are inviting students to infuse digital technologies into theatre processes, pedagogies, and performances. It describes the ways that faculty and students can creatively and critically engage with new media forms in drama/theatre settings. It also explores the shifting nature of drama pedagogy and performance as those new media forms influence it. The pedagogical and performance practice described is grounded in a belief that the act of sharing and receiving stories is a critical form of pedagogy through which participants can actively develop new understandings of self, other and society together as they create, share and receive. The chapter identifies methodological approaches teachers and facilitators might use to engage students at the intersections between theatre, performance and digital media forms. It also outlines ways that theatre educators and their students can explore, play with, re-combine and produce digital stories for creative and educational purposes within performance environments.