First Assignment

http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/441440_768138429_747652264.pdf

-This journal article explains what the author calls "vernacular creativity".

where the author uses an example of digital storytelling to speculate about the democratic potential of a participatory cultural studies approach to what ‘vernacular creativity’.

- "Digital storytelling therefore works to remediate vernacular creativity in new media
contexts: it is based on everyday communicative practices—telling personal stories,
collecting, and sharing personal images—but remixed with the textual idioms of
television and film; and transformed into publicly accessible culture through the use of digital tools for production and distribution. Through this process of remediation, it transforms everyday experience into shared public culture. Above all, digital storytelling is an example of creativity in the service of effective social communication, where communication is not to be understood narrowly as the exchange of information or ‘ideas’ but as the affective practice of the social."

http://www.udel.edu/paulhyde/ds/readings/hull_agentive_self.pdf