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<p>Life storytelling projects have become an important means through which public service media institutions such as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are seeking to foster audience participation and involve particular cohorts in the creation and distribution of broadcast content. This paper contributes to the wider conversation on audience participation within public service media intuitions (PSMs), and focuses on the opportunities and challenges that arise within life storytelling projects that are facilitated by these institutions, and that aim to ‘give voice’ to members of ‘the audience’. In particular, it focuses on two of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s current life storytelling projects: ABC Open and Heywire.</p></abstract>

Life storytelling projects have become an important means through which public service media institutions such as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are seeking to foster audience participation and involve particular cohorts in the creation and distribution of broadcast content. This paper contributes to the wider conversation on audience participation within public service media intuitions (PSMs), and focuses on the opportunities and challenges that arise within life storytelling projects that are facilitated by these institutions, and that aim to ‘give voice’ to members of ‘the audience’. In particular, it focuses on two of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s current life storytelling projects: ABC Open and Heywire.

Life storytelling at the ABC: <italic>Challenges of ‘giving the audience a voice’ in the context of public service media</italic>

Cultural Science

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Life storytelling projects have become an important means through which public service media institutions such as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are...

Life storytelling at the ABC: Challenges of ‘giving the audience a voice’ in the context of public service media

Published Online: Oct 31, 2015

Page range: 131 - 149

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.86

Keywords
Public Service Media, Heywire, ABC Open, Life Storytelling, Social Learning, Digital Literacy, User-created content

© 2015 Sasha Mackay, Elizabeth Heck, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Life storytelling at the ABC: Challenges of ‘giving the audience a voice’ in the context of public service media

Published Online: Oct 31, 2015

Page range: 131 - 149

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.86

KeywordsPublic Service Media, Heywire, ABC Open, Life Storytelling, Social Learning, Digital Literacy, User-created content

© 2015 Sasha Mackay, Elizabeth Heck, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Public Service Media, Heywire, ABC Open, Life Storytelling, Social Learning, Digital Literacy, User-created content