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 Robert McKee Irwin
Robert McKee Irwin is Chair of the Graduate Group of Cultural Studies at the University of California Davis, where he also co-directs the Mellon Initiative in Comparative Border Studies (borderstudies.ucdavis.edu/). He is co-PI of the digital storytelling project "Humanizando la Deportación" (http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu/es/). He is author of Mexican Masculinities and coeditor of Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies, among other titles.