New digital technologies, especially new communication networks connected within the internet, are becoming increasingly more important as tools for management, information distribution, and as radically new models of...New digital technologies, especially new communication networks connected within the internet, are becoming increasingly more important as tools for management, information distribution, and as radically new models of cultural production. This paper takes a deep look at the Tosakan Project, a community project in Saraburi province, Thailand. This project combines concepts of folk media, digital storytelling, and the participatory model of Web 2.0 in order to solve community problems. Herein, it is shown how diverse groups in this community project work together using social network channels such as Facebook and Line to digitally tell folk stories through videos and disseminate the content to a wider audience via Facebook and other digital sharing outlets such as YouTube.展开更多
文摘New digital technologies, especially new communication networks connected within the internet, are becoming increasingly more important as tools for management, information distribution, and as radically new models of cultural production. This paper takes a deep look at the Tosakan Project, a community project in Saraburi province, Thailand. This project combines concepts of folk media, digital storytelling, and the participatory model of Web 2.0 in order to solve community problems. Herein, it is shown how diverse groups in this community project work together using social network channels such as Facebook and Line to digitally tell folk stories through videos and disseminate the content to a wider audience via Facebook and other digital sharing outlets such as YouTube.
