Digital storytelling in study abroad: toward a counter-catalogic experience

Authors

  • Karen Rodríguez Director, CIEE Study Center in Guanajuato, Mexico Visiting Professor, Visual Arts Department, Universidad de Guanajuato

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7577/seminar.2444

Keywords:

Digital stories, study abroad, sound, image, critical representation

Abstract

This article examines a pilot project incorporating digital storytelling into a short-term study abroad program in the small city of Guanajuato, Mexico. After contextualizing the project’s pedagogical and theoretical concerns, the article examines the resulting stories, underscoring their potential for helping students pay attention to specific sites, to think beyond the usual images one is bombarded with and to spark critical thought. It argues that digital storytelling allows both students and host community members to become authors and representers of their experiences, thus creating a “counter-catalogic” study abroad experience, i.e. one that goes beyond the staid images used to market these experiences abroad. Digital stories afford an exciting mode for thinking about how to create critical, intimate and dialogic encounters with others.

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Published

2010-11-24

How to Cite

Rodríguez, K. (2010). Digital storytelling in study abroad: toward a counter-catalogic experience. Seminar.net, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/seminar.2444

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Articles