The Tradition is the Message: How Traditional Storytelling Circulates in the Digital Information Environment
Abstract
The paper explores how traditional storytelling adapts to the digital environment and adopts/assimilates it. This study is based on a corpus of fourteen semi-structured in-depth interviews of researchers and performers with an expertise in seven different storytelling traditions. Therefore, we present a new typology of traditional storytellers and depict their Internet/New Media usage specifics.
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