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| Centre for Digital Storytelling | |
|---|---|
| Name | Centre for Digital Storytelling |
| Formation | 1994 |
| Type | Nonprofit organization |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Services | Story workshops, digital archiving, community media |
Centre for Digital Storytelling
The Centre for Digital Storytelling was a nonprofit cultural organization that developed methods for combining personal narrative with digital media, influencing practice across San Francisco, Berkeley, California, Oakland, California, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Austin, Texas, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Berlin, Toronto, Vancouver (British Columbia), Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, New Jersey, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Francisco, Columbia University, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Yale University, University of Toronto, McGill University, Australian National University, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, King's College London, University College London, Imperial College London, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Washington, University of Oregon, University of Texas at Austin, University of Chicago.
The organization emerged in the mid-1990s amid shifts in digital culture shaped by entities such as Netscape Communications Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., IBM, Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo!, Google, Amazon (company), Mozilla Foundation, W3C, Creative Commons, Internet Archive, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Library of Science, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Oxfam International, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Knight Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Annenberg Foundation, Gates Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, Getty Foundation, British Council, European Commission, International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission.
Founders and early participants had ties to institutions like University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, San Francisco State University, San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, City College of San Francisco, Community Media Center of Marin, Bay Area Video Coalition, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, Americans for the Arts, Independent Television Service, Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio, British Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Television, Television New Zealand, Channel 4, ZDF, Arte (TV network), NHK, CBC Radio One.
The mission focused on empowering individuals and communities through storytelling practices influenced by organizations such as StoryCorps, The Moth, This American Life, Radiolab, NPR, BBC Radio 4, KEXP, WNYC (AM), KCRW, PRI (Public Radio International), American Public Media, Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, TED Conferences, Aspen Institute, Population Council, Emerson College, Columbia Journalism School, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Reuters Institute, Pulitzer Prize, Peabody Awards, Emmy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Venice Biennale, Cannes Film Festival.
Programs included workshop series, digital media labs, community archives and training modeled on precedents from Media Lab (MIT), Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Rhizome, New Media Lab (Tate Modern), Walker Art Center, MAXXI, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Serpentine Galleries, Mori Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Ludwig Museum, Hamburger Bahnhof, Fondazione Prada, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Brooklyn Museum.
Major projects produced curricular materials, toolkits, digital exhibits and short films with distribution partners like YouTube, Vimeo, Internet Archive, SoundCloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Medium (website), WordPress.com, GitHub, SourceForge, Archive of Our Own, Project Gutenberg, HathiTrust, JSTOR, SSRN, PubMed Central, arXiv, ResearchGate.
Publications included manuals and case studies cited alongside works from Henry Jenkins, Lev Manovich, Manuel Castells, Sherry Turkle, Howard Rheingold, Clay Shirky, Lawrence Lessig, Danah Boyd, Rebecca Solnit, Bell Hooks, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, James Paul Gee, Sonia Livingstone, Janet Murray, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Stuart Hall, Angela Davis, Arjun Appadurai.
Methodologies drew from narrative theory and practice associated with Narrative Inquiry, Oral History Association, Folklore Society, Ethnography', Participatory Action Research, Community-Based Participatory Research, Human–Computer Interaction, User Experience (UX), Design Thinking, Participatory Design, Critical Design, Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Data Visualization, GIS (Geographic Information System), Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Knowledge.
Technical work referenced software and platforms from Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., Microsoft, Blender (software), Audacity (audio editor), Final Cut Pro, Avid Technology, Pro Tools, Unity (game engine), Unreal Engine, Processing (programming language), Max/MSP, Pure Data, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, R (programming language), Python (programming language), MATLAB, QGIS.
Collaborations spanned cultural institutions, advocacy groups and technology firms such as Smithsonian Institution, Getty Research Institute, Library of Congress, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UNICEF, UN Women, World Health Organization, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, Internet Archive, OpenAI, Google.org, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Adobe Foundation, IDEO, Frog Design, Arup Group, Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, McKinsey & Company.
Academic partnerships included Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, UC Santa Cruz, University of Washington, University of Toronto, University of Melbourne, Goldsmiths, University of London, Royal College of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
The center's methods influenced practitioners and scholars cited alongside Henry Jenkins, Lev Manovich, Sherry Turkle, Clay Shirky, Lawrence Lessig, Rebecca Solnit, Danah Boyd, Sonia Livingstone, Janet Murray, Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, Arjun Appadurai, Bell Hooks, Angela Davis, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, James Paul Gee. Coverage appeared in outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired (magazine), The Atlantic, Slate (magazine), The New Yorker, Bloomberg News, Reuters, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, BBC News, NPR (National Public Radio), PBS.
Awards and recognition intersected with honors such as Pulitzer Prize, Peabody Awards, Emmy Awards, MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Knight Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Medal of Arts.
Governance was managed by a board of directors and advisory councils with members drawn from Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, MIT, University of Toronto, University of Melbourne, King's College London, University College London, Carnegie Mellon University, Royal Society, British Academy, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Film Independent, Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW.
Funding streams included philanthropic grants and contracts from Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Knight Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, Open Society Foundations, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Annenberg Foundation, Google.org, Microsoft, Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., IBM, Amazon (company), Accenture.
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