Precluding Authorial Agency: Investigating the Multiple Discourses a Youth Author Engages When Discussing and Composing an Autobiographical Digital Story

• In Event: 29.091 - Poster Session 4
  In Poster Session: 29.091-8 - Precluding Authorial Agency: Investigating the Multiple Discourses a Youth Author Engages When Discussing and Composing an Autobiographical Digital Story

Abstract

Digital storytelling has shown important potential to promote voice and agency amongst non-dominant youth in both formal and informal learning contexts (Gutiérrez, Bien, Selland, & Pierce, 2011; Curwood & Gibbons, 2010). Central to this body of scholarship is an account of the multiple discourses resonant in youth’s multimodal products that enable new forms of semiotic production necessary for the reconfiguration of problematic identity narratives (Hull & Katz, 2006). Less attention has been given to the discursive complexities resonant in youth’s conversations when talking about digital composition processes and products. This paper centers on a close examination of one African American male youth’s reflections upon his process and product with autobiographical digital storytelling for a high school English Language Arts class.

Author

• Rebecca Beucher, University of Colorado - Boulder