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New Media Storytelling in Drama for Conflict Transformation and as Experimental Ethnography: The 24-Picture Day Halloween Project


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The author introduces a new paradigm for collecting visual ethnographic material in a dynamic and interactive fashion and describes how the same model can also be as a conflict mediation device to enhance understanding across cultural or political divides. The "24 Picture Day" paradigm uses mobile phone cameras or inexpensive, non - professional digital still cameras to let people on both sides of a conflict experience each other's point of view through a new media storytelling experience.

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Experimental Ethnography, New Media Storytelling, Experimental Documentary, Drama for Conflict Transformation, Interactive Documentary.
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Authors

Kerric Harvey
The George Washington University, United States

Abstract


The author introduces a new paradigm for collecting visual ethnographic material in a dynamic and interactive fashion and describes how the same model can also be as a conflict mediation device to enhance understanding across cultural or political divides. The "24 Picture Day" paradigm uses mobile phone cameras or inexpensive, non - professional digital still cameras to let people on both sides of a conflict experience each other's point of view through a new media storytelling experience.

Keywords


Experimental Ethnography, New Media Storytelling, Experimental Documentary, Drama for Conflict Transformation, Interactive Documentary.

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