Digital humanities + Digital journalism = Digital storytelling: A course as a case study

Merging tools and methods of digital humanities and digital journalism, a digital storytelling course was created at AUBG that created collaboration within the university (library and journalism department) and the municipality, and began an archive of the city’s elders, adding a deeper understanding of the city through personal stories.

The opportunity to refocus a multimedia journalism course after attending the TALIX workshop in Cairo in March 2017 led me to a collaboration with our librarian to create a digital storytelling course that centers on four student projects to map the city of Blagoevgrad, where our university is located. One of the projects was to begin to collect oral histories of the city’s elders using the methods and tools of digital humanities, oral history and digital journalism. This presentation shows the evolution of the course, the lessons learned and examples of student work.