Telling Our Legacies Digitally: Digital stories promoting literacy, outreach, an

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案寻求资金，探索使用数字讲故事来吸引马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔德北端的居民积极解决正在进行的社区和个人健康问题。拟议的研究是史密斯学院和马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔德北端外展网络之间持续的社区会议伙伴关系工作的直接产物（见5 U13 HD 052393）。在基于社区的参与式研究（CBPR）模型（Minkler & Wallerston, 2003）中，我们将探索使用数字讲故事作为一种翻译机制，以文化相关和个人参与的形式向社区成员传达健康信息。这种方法将使我们能够探索这种令人兴奋的新技术是否会增强北端社区居民的“社区参与”，提高对现有社区卫生服务的理解和参与，以解决个人、家庭和社区卫生问题。工作研究小组将举行定期会议，讨论并监督数字故事叙述计划的发展。一项关键活动将是每月举办数字故事研讨会，让居民们讲述自己的个人故事。在这些研讨会上，参与者将获得重要的技术素养技能，并就讲故事格式的结构和可能性提供反馈。这项活动的目的是通过构建一个广泛的数字故事库来建立研究能力，其中每个故事目录都具有主题和情感意义。在收集关于数字故事的数据时，我们将采用感知分析技术来探索使用数字故事来确定参与医疗保健服务的障碍的可行性。一旦编目，我们将研究数字故事作为促进社区建设和参与的工具的效用。根据这些社区反馈，我们建议在数字媒体上制作和检查主题组织的故事纲要的功效，以作为推广工作中的翻译和参与工具。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks funding to explore using digital storytelling to engage residents of the North End of Springfield, Massachusetts to actively address ongoing community and personal health issues. The proposed research is a direct outgrowth of the continuing community conference partnership work between Smith College and the North End Outreach Network of Springfield, Massachusetts (see 5 U13 HD 052393). Working within a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Model (Minkler & Wallerston, 2003), we will explore the use of digital storytelling as a translational mechanism to convey health information to community members in a culturally relevant and personally involving form. This approach will allow us to explore whether this exciting new technique will enhance "community engagement" by residents of the North End community, improving understanding of and participation in existing community health services to address personal, familial, and community health concerns. The working research group will conduct regular meeting to discuss and provide oversight to the development of the digital storytelling program. A key activity will be to conduct monthly digital storytelling workshops where residents generate their own personal stories. At these workshop's, participants will gain important technical literacy skills and will provide feedback on the structure and possibilities for the storytelling format. The aim of this activity is to build research capacity by constructing an extensive digital story library with each story catalog for both topical and affective significance. In collecting data on the digital stories, we will employ Perception Analysis techniques to explore the feasibility of using digital stories to identify barriers to participation in health care services. Once cataloged, we will examine the utility of digital stories as tools to promoting community building and engagement. Working from this community feedback, we propose to produce and examine the efficacy of topically organized compendiums of stories on digital media for use as a translational and engagement tool in outreach efforts. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed community based participatory research examines the feasibility of using digital storytelling to engage residents in health service utilization within their community. We also examine the use of produced stories to mobilize community action to address health concerns. Finally, we explore the use of these compelling personal stories as a translational mechanism for conveying health research and related information. Each of these objectives is embedded within a working framework to promote and expand a community partnership between faculty, students and staff of Smith College and the residents of the North End neighborhoods of Springfield, Massachusetts.