The multimodal meaning-making potential of self-representation and self-expression in digital storytelling

Abstract

This auto-ethonographic essay offers an analysis of my work as an education researcher and digital storyteller. Using research data and drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary theory relating to addressivity and answerability, I describe and attempt to justify the proposition that sense-making in and of the world through viewing and representing is an educative dialogic process. This statement stands in vivid contradistinction to a view of the world that is typically objective and impersonal. In closing, I discuss an important implication of my reflections for multimodal research.