This article outlines the digital storytelling methods used for a community based research project focused on issues of sexuality among California farmworkers: Sexualidades Campesinas. We note how our process of collaboration in the creation and production of digital stories was shaped by the context and our envisioned storytellers. We then offer a critical analysis of our own unique experience with digital storytelling in this project, focusing on a handful of concepts key to understanding the nature of our collaborative production process: community, affect and collaboration, storytelling, performance, and mediation, with an eye to the problem of ethics.
Articles by Tania Lizarazo
Tania Lizarazo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication, and the Program in Global Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her digital storytelling projects include a collaboration with Afro-Colombian activists: “Mujeres Pacíficas” (mujerespacificas.org), and an ongoing project in collaboration with Latinx immigrants in Baltimore: “Moving Stories: Latinas in Baltimore”. She is also co-PI of the service learning project “Intercultural Tales: Learning With Baltimore’s Immigrant Communities”.