We become the stories we choose to tell. Narratives are the conditions that sequence, structure, and shape those stories. Stories are abundant and plural; everyone has them. Narratives are selective, shaped by power, ideology, and affect – they frame whose stories are told, how they are told, and to what end.

The Digital Narratives Studio recognizes that Narratives are a combination of stories being told, the bodies telling them, and the media and technologies that shape them.

We are an academic, creative, experimental, and research-driven group that convenes networks, converges different stakeholders, and constructs frameworks to examine, study, research, and propose how digital media and technologies – emergent and proliferating – can be harnessed to imagine and build futures of radical care through collective action.

In our different programming, we center radical care work, dismantle and reimagine digital media and technologies, and create infrastructures and possibilities for narrative engagements, primarily for communities in the Majority Worlds that are disproportionately impacted by the scales of digital technologies.

DIGITAL NARRATIVES STUDIO = fn (STORIES + BODIES + MEDIA) * HOPE/CRISES

Current Digital Narrative conditions are heavily informed by a rehearsal of doom, gloom, and crises, that we call ‘politics of despair’. These politics of despair produce stories that reinforce the brokenness of the world, while breaking the bodies that are the most vulnerable, and media practices that generate inaction and resignation in the face of seemingly insurmountable crises.

The function of Digital Narratives Studio is to examine how we can find new ways to address these urgencies by reorienting towards hope and reframing crises as catalysts for collective care action.

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