数字叙事作为数字人文方法:现状与可能

Digital Storytelling as a Digital Humanities Method:The Status Quo and the Potential

[目的/意义]在梳理数字叙事在人文与社会科学领域发展现状的基础上,探讨其在数字人文研究与实践中方法化的可能性与潜在的价值。[方法/过程]对数字时代下产生的与数字人文研究息息相关的"数据叙事"与"数字叙事"概念进行辨析,对在传媒领域与公共史学领域首先提出并已经得到充分发展的数字叙事的相关实践进行分析,并针对目前在数字人文项目中已经体现的数字叙事实践从资源组织与成果呈现、交互体验与增进认知两个方面进行总结。[结果/结论]提出数字人文视野下数字叙事的概念、内涵、特殊性以及数字叙事作为数字人文方法的可能性,并对形式化叙事及数字人文叙事评价的前景作出展望,构建"数字人文形式化叙事及信效度评价模型",以期对数字叙事在数字人文研究中的价值与潜能进行探索。

[Purpose/significance]On the basis of sorting out the existing research of digital storytelling in the field of humanities and social sciences,this paper explores its methodological possibilities and potential value in digital humanities research and practice.[Method/process]This paper differentiated and analyzed the concepts of'data storytelling'and'digital storytelling'which were closely related to digital humanities research in the digital age,and reviewed the practice of digital storytelling in the fields of media and public history where it was first proposed and had been well-developed.It summarized the digital storytelling practice that had been embodied in the digital humanities project from two aspects of resource organization and outcome presentation,interactive experience and cognitive enhancement.[Result/conclusion]This paper proposes the definition,meaning,and characteristics of digital storytelling in DH,and discusses the potential of using digital storytelling as a research method in DH.It also looks forward to the prospect of auto-structuring stories and the evaluation of DH storytelling,and constructs the"digital humanities auto-structuring storytelling and reliability and validity evaluation model"with a goal to explore the value and potential of digital storytelling in DH.