Digital Storytelling and Aboriginal Young People: An Exploration of Digital Technology to Support Contemporary Koori Culture

Abstract

A digital 'participation gap' continues: not all media ecologies are created equal. Developing digital literacy and media skills are necessary for young Australian Aboriginal people to have equal opportunities for completing their education, to achieve productive online civic engagement (cyber citizenship), and to reap the benefits of the digital economy. This chapter discusses how digital stories (short films) were developed using images and information made on mobile devices and retrieved from individual's Facebook sites. How this information (photographs, videos, music, etc.) is created and shared via participants' digital stories is explored in relation to developing digital literacy ski..