Reading on Screen is a collaboration between the universities of Bournemouth and Brighton funded by the .
The project follows on from two previous projects at 成人直播聽funded by the AHRC ( | www.digitalreadingnetwork.com) and is intended to share the findings of the previous projects with members of the public.
The new project is designed to capture the stories of readers living through the technological advances of the last decades which have resulted in more and more people 鈥榬eading on screen鈥�. The project team, Bronwen Thomas (BU), Ross Adamson and Isobel Creed聽(both University of Brighton) will work closely with , a participatory media company based in London, to host workshops in Bournemouth, Sheffield and Brighton designed to produce around 20-30 digital stories.聽The project is also supported by , a charity dedicated to inspiring people to read more.
Digital storytelling is an established creative workshop process for 8-10 people working with trained facilitators to produce short (2 鈥� 3 minutes) digital videos.聽 At the end of each workshop, each participant will have written and produced his or her own digital story and will have shared their stories within the group.聽Participants usually have no prior experience of using digital technologies in such filmmaking.
Stories from the project will feature on the website () and will also appear on YouTube. We hope that these stories will provide a valuable resource for schools, reading charities and libraries, stimulating debate on the topic of reading and demonstrating the effectiveness of digital storytelling for empowering participants to find their voice.聽You can see some of the videos from the project so far below.
The project will conclude in December/January 2018 with an exhibition at Brighton鈥檚 City Campus Media Centre, a state of the art media facility. This will feature screenings of the stories including a digital story of the workshops produced by the Project Team.
Awards
Project PI Professor Bronwen Thomas has recently been the receipient of a prestigious award聽for her academic research work on聽literacy in the digital age. The announcement was made at the聽World Literacy Awards聽hosted by the聽World Literacy Foundation聽with 5,300 attendees from 52 countries who joined the online ceremony.聽Find out more聽and watch the聽