Daniel Meadows and the digital age: Why his new literacy is the way forward.
Digital storyteller Daniel Meadows created the first ever online magazine back in 1996. He spoke to us today about how he facilitates others into making their own media through digital storytelling.
I was impressed with his stories, which touched on a range of topics, including shoes and teddybears. He showed us how his workshops look at peoples relationships with their photographs, allowing them to tell their own personal story digitally.
These digital stories have the ability to show off our individuality, personal views and perceptions as well as being a new form of literacy. Therefore I think we should embrace them.
They allow people to adopt a voice to get their message across via a new and exciting medium.
Daniel argues we need to intervene by facilitating, in order to get the seventeen million 'non-liners' online and keep up with the most exciting time media will see – the digital age. I agree, the world will only be digitized once and we cannot afford to let people miss out on such an opportunity.
This means we are the ones to invent the future, as the digital age enables journalism to becomes two-way. Terrifying isn't it? But look at all the new doors it opens, it’s incredibly exciting, giving our future audiences a chance to feedback.
This is a new place our media has never gone before and I plan to take Daniel’s advice: “If you don’t want to be done by it, learn to do it yourself” very seriously.
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