Dear Colleagues, you may be interested in this new book on personal Digital Storytelling: "Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in New Media" Edited by Knut Lundby (Peter Lang) Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on "me" flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling workshops. The resulting digital stories could be called "mediatized stories." This book deals with these self-representational stories, aiming to understand the transformations in the age-old practice of storytelling that have become possible with the new, digital media. Among the contributors to this volume are Nick Couldry, Kirsten Drotner, Nancy Thumim, David Gauntlett, James V. Wertsch, Ola Erstad, Glynda A. Hull and John Hartley. The book draws upon the "Mediatized Stories" project www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/ and also relates to the research on digital storytelling at QUT in Australia www.cci.edu.au Says Charles Ess, AoIR president: "Contributors address current discussions concerning media and identity, the democratizing potential of new media, as well as significant debates regarding how we best theorize 'media' and 'mediatization'. This is a 'must-read' collection for anyone interested in global perspectives on narrative, new media, and the larger impacts and potentials of digital technologies on both our individual and collective lives as de facto global citizens." www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/publications www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=310273&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1 Best wishes Knut Lundby ______________________________ Project leader MEDIATIZED STORIES www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/