Digital storytelling and place-

attachmentA 'lens' through which to analyse people's values

in the Drought Risk and You (DRY) Project

Dr Antonia LiguoriLoughborough University

Digital Storytelling as a form of engagement

We think of storytelling as

“a means of sharing knowledge, building trust, and cultivating identity” (Cianca et al 2014)

a sort of “holistic thinking” (Meadows, 2009)

Keywords: authority, authenticity Question: what is ‘unreliable’?

Place as the background to stories and memories

We ask how might digital storytelling triangulate between personal experience, place-attachment and crisis (drought) response.

Keywords: local distinctiveness, community of interest

Question: is the ‘digital’ element of storytelling only a tool?

Multiple narrative approaches in DRY Project

Keywords: translational tool, experiential knowledge Question: Are we able to to subvert the knowledge hierarchies?

People’s values to reveal nuances of “sense of place”

DS as a way of validating a Sentiment Analysis on Social Media

Twitter users respond almost instantly to natural disasters (Bruns, Burgess, Crawford, & Shaw, 2012), political unrest (Gaffney, 2010; Tonkin, Pfeiffer & Tourte, 2012), or other breaking news.

Keywords: ‘nanostories’, human behaviour

Question: how can we inform people about drought? [proactivity vs reactivity]

Two examples from the Community and the Business sector

Decision-making tools with an online archive of personal and social memories in 7 river catchments

“The earth is a form of writing,

a ‘geography’ of which we had

forgotten that we ourselves

are the authors” (George Perec,

1998)Photo published on Flickr by A. Siegel

Drought Risk and You

is a research funded by

Natural and Environment Research Council NERC

Economic and Social Research Council ESRC

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EPSRC

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBSRC

Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRC

http://dryproject.co.uk/

@ a.liguori@lboro.ac.uk

Thank you!