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Post Reading Week 7 Matthew Healy #922893218

Mapping Memories​: Explore the resources, videos, and digital stories on the Mapping
Memories site. Pick one video and make notes in a format of your choice, thinking about the
video in relation to the reading for this week and readings so far in the course.

Notes: ​My Temporary Home / Ma maison provisoire by Rasha Samour

http://mappingmemories.ca/going-places-memoryscape-bus-tour-montreal/video/my-tempora
ry-home-ma-maison-provisoire-rasha-samour.html

- Story of Palestinian refugee coming from Palestine then Jordan to finally settle in
Montreal.

- HIstoric personal images of Ralta Kobani (mother of Rasha) from youth in MIddle
East and documents her leaving of the region to emigrate to Lachine in Montreal.

- Story combined voice interview with music. Images were presented as a static slide
show.

- What really resonated was integration of music in story especially as narrative ended
with violines sounding a somewhat sombre note.

- The overall impression of the story was one of longing to return but realization that
for sake of family, staying in Montreal was a prudent decision to make

The above cursory reflections combine with the readings to show digital storytelling in line
with ideas of participatory culture as discussed by Jenkins (2010) as engagement is effected
in a way that brings the narrative to life in a relatively simple yet no less moving way and
form (with the addition of music) to express a journey of the individual amid turmoil.

Taken a step further, the narrative also highlights its narrative by way of intimate and static
family photos that provide the viewer with an inside view of a family story that brings in
traditional media (photos) in both cross and trans media usages (Jenkins, 2017).
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Reference

Jenkins, H. (2010). ​Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for
the 21st Century.​ The Macarthur Foundation​.

Voices for a New Vernacular: A Forum on Digital Storytelling – Interview with Henry
Jenkins ​from International Journal of Communication,​ 11(2017).