“In the driver's seat”: Navigating vulnerability and autonomy in digital storytelling with older adults

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI:10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101346

Emily Graff , Audrey Tung , Sarah Wagner

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Abstract

Digital Storytelling has emerged as a powerful tool for social change, providing a platform for uncovering and amplifying marginalized voices. While its application in gerontology has grown, previous workshops often exclude individuals in long-term care settings. This paper shifts the focus to care home residents, exploring how Digital Storytelling can facilitate participant agency in the face of their perceived vulnerabilities.

Drawing on 11 virtual Digital Storytelling workshops in care homes on Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada, this study uncovers the nuanced relationship between vulnerability and autonomy in storytelling. It challenges the notion of autonomy as strictly individualistic, showcasing vulnerability as a pathway to agency within caring relationships. The analysis contributes new understanding to an Ethics of Care framework, demonstrating the enabling role of vulnerability in terms of promoting relational autonomy. The paper calls for a caregiving approach in research practices to support the inclusion of underrepresented individuals and contributes a specific angle to Digital Storytelling research by providing in-depth insight into the interrelations of vulnerability and autonomy within facilitator-participant relationships.

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Journal of Aging Studies GERONTOLOGY-

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3.20

自引率

17.40%

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审稿时长

50 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Aging Studies features scholarly papers offering new interpretations that challenge existing theory and empirical work. Articles need not deal with the field of aging as a whole, but with any defensibly relevant topic pertinent to the aging experience and related to the broad concerns and subject matter of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. The journal emphasizes innovations and critique - new directions in general - regardless of theoretical or methodological orientation or academic discipline. Critical, empirical, or theoretical contributions are welcome.