Animation, interactive narration, and multimodal learning

Completed

Project leaders: Kirsten Drotner and Lotte Nyboe

School no longer holds a monopoly of educating the young. Key competences are increasingly developed at non-formal and semi-formal settings and sites - both physical and virtual.

This project aims at studying such learning processes through theory-driven empirical research. Key questions: which multimodal competencies are activated through processes of multimedia production? Are new multimodal competencies developed and, if so, what forms do they take? How may formal sites of education, such as schools, incorporate multimodal competencies, and which pedagogical and organisational challenges do they face?

The case seeks to integrate theories of situated learning and design-based theory with theories of everyday aesthetics and cross-media theories. The empirical basis of the project is an ethnographically-oriented study conducted in 2005, in which pupils from two school-classes (6th and 10th grade) over a period of three weeks produced their own stories by means of computer animation, PhotoShop or stop-motion animation.

The project forms part of a larger cultural venture, incorporating also professional drama, oral storytelling, and museology, and based at a Danish experimental culture centre for the young, KulturPrinsen


Publications

Livingstone, S. & K. Drotner (2011) Children¹s Media Cultures in Comparative Perspective. In Virginia Nightingale (Ed.) The Handbook of Media Audiences. Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.

Drotner, K. (2011) Mediehistorier. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur.

Drotner, K. (2011) The cult of creativity: Opposition, incorporation, transformation. In J. Sefton Green, P. Thomson, L. Bresler & K. Jones (Eds) The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning. London: Routledge.

Drotner K. (2011) Domains of digital literacy learning: beyond easy oppositions. In S. Livingstone (Ed.) Media literacy: Ambitions, policies and measures. Brussels: Report from COST Action: Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies.

Drotner, K. (2010) Democratic digital literacies: Three obstacles in search of a solution. In Ulla Carlsson (Ed.) Children and Youth in the Digital Media Culture: From a Nordic Horizon. Yearbook 2010 from the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media. Gothenburg: Nordicom.

Drotner, K. & Kim C. Schrøder (Eds) (2010) Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique. New York: Peter Lang.

Drotner, K., V. Duus & O. Erstad (2009) Evaluering af national digital læringsarena. Oslo: Rambøll.

Nyboe, L. (2009). Digital dannelse. Børns og unges mediebrug og -læring inden og uden for institutionerne. København: Frydenlund.

Nyboe, L. (2009). Digital produktion og æstetisk læring. Kapittel 5. In Digital dannelse: Børns og unge mediebrug og -læring inden for og uden for institutionerne. København: Frydenlund.

Drotner, K. (2009) Children and digital media: online, on site, on the go. In J. Qvortrup et. al (Eds) Handbook of Childhood Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Drotner, K. (2008) Digital dannelse: når fritiden er hårdt arbejde. In J. T. Bertelsen, A. H. B. Ebbensgaard, K. Madsen & O. G. Mouritsen (red.) Viljen til visdom: en debatbog udgivet i anledning af Odense Katedralskoles 725 års jubilæum. Aarhus: Slagmark.

Drotner, K. (2008) Informal Learning and Digital Media: Perceptions, Practices and Perspectives. In Drotner, K, H.S. Jensen & K.C. Schrøder (Eds) Informal Learning and Digital Media: Constructions, Contexts and Consequences. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Drotner, K., H.S. Jensen & K.C. Schrøder (Eds) (2008) Informal Learning and Digital Media: Constructions, Contexts and Consequences. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Drotner, K. & S. Livingstone (Eds.) (2008) The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture. Sage.

Drotner, K. (2008) Boundaries and bridges: Digital storytelling in education studies and media studies. In K. Lundby (Ed.) Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in New Media. New York: Peter Lang.

Nyboe, L. & K. Drotner (2008) Identity, aesthetics and digital narration. In K. Lundby (Ed.) Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in New Media. New York: Peter Lang.


Presentations

Nyboe, L. (2008): 'Digital animation - between formal and informal learning and literacies'. Panel presentation. ISCAR 2008, San Diego, 8-13 September.

Drotner, K. (2008) Panel introduction on 'Untold stories of children's media engagement around the world'. International Communication Association (ICA), Montreal, May 2008.

Drotner, K. (2008): 'Twists in the tale/tail/tael: telling scholarship.' Invited lecture in honour of Birgit Hertzberg Kaare and Knut Lundby, University of Oslo, April 2008.

Drotner, K. (2007): 'Literacy and media convergence'. Invited lecture to the closing conference of the Competence and Media Convergence (CMC) research programme at the University of Oslo, November 2007.

Nyboe, L. (2007): 'Authority, pedagogy and competence in young people's media production practices'. Presentation at the closing conference of the Competence and Media Convergence (CMC) research programme at the University of Oslo, November 2007.

Drotner K., & L. Nyboe (2007) 'Animation, Aesthetics, and Interactive Narration.' Presentation to the conference, International Communication Association, san Francisco, 24-28 May, 2007.

Nyboe, L. (2006): 'Animation, interactive narration and multimodal learning', paper to the DREAM conference on 'Informal Learning and Digital Media: Constructions, Contexts, Consequences', University of Southern Denmark, 21-23 September 2006.

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