Information Stories

What's at stake when local news and information flow doesn't serve all members of a community equally well? How can people respond? These are the questions at the heart of INFORMATION STORIES, a series of short digital narratives conceived by law professor Peter M. Shane and filmmaker Liv Gjestvang. Peter and Liv recruited a dozen storytellers from around the United States, who shared their personal experiences around these themes in a July, 2010 Digital Storytelling Workshop co-sponsored by the Ohio State University Digital Union (part of the Office of the CIO), the University Libraries, and the University Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Captioned versions of all stories suitable for RealPlayer are available at http://informationstories.org. Low-cost DVDs containing both the individual stories and a full-reel version viewable as a continuous documentary are available for purchase at http://tinyurl.com/62ulnao

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