Week 5: Mike Plett Mid Term Response

The two sites I’m going to compare and contrast are WITNESS and the Center for Digital Storytelling because, of all of the many sites we’ve looked at, they seem to have stuck with me more. Not quite sure why, but perhaps as I write my paper it’ll become clearer to me.

Both sites tell people’s […]

Week 3: Mike Plett response to viewings

Of the three sites we were assigned to explore this week, the Center for Digital Storytelling was the most arresting. I enjoyed the deceptive simplicity of CDS’s approach to storytelling: short narration, still photos, perhaps a bit of video. But these digital stories pack a lot of emotional power in a short amount of space, […]