Narrating Chinese Youth Mobilities

This book presents the first major initiative to introduce workshop-based Digital Storytelling to digitally dynamic and engaged youth, both in China and internationally.

Autorentext

He Zhang is a lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication at Northwest University in China. She earned her PhD in Media Studies from Curtin University, Australia. Her areas of interest include participatory practices, youth mobilities, and intercultural communication.

Qian Gong is a senior lecturer at Curtin University, Australia. She researches Chinese media and popular culture. She is also the co-editor of Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia (Routledge, 2023).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Digital Storytelling, Mobility, and Media Citizenship 2. Conceptualising Digital Storytelling as Practice and Method 3. Designing the Research 4. Narrating Transnationality by Chinese Young People in Australia 5. Reskilling through Self-representation: Empowering Chinese International Students through Digital Storytelling 6. The First Trial of the Digital Storytelling Workshop for Young Migrants in China 7. Autobiographical Storytelling as Counter-Narrative to the Myth of "the South" 8. Is It Worth It?: Youth Mobility and the Consumption of International Higher Education by the Chinese Middle Class 9. Conclusion