How do you analyse Digital stories?
This question has been raised on many occasions by the Research Team studying the challenges faced by
Community based Internet Centers in Sri Lanka.
The Study is facilitated by the Internet Research Centre of The Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.
The study is looking at the possibility of using Digital stories made by communities to understand how the communities interact, perceive and utilize the ICTD facilities.
Chatura Halwathra , who joined the study team to develop analytical tools to analyse the stories made by the community was faced with a dilemma.
Most available software’s analyse still images or long videos.
Also the software analyzes the final output and the production process needs to be analyzed separately.
Chatura asked himself a question.
Digital stories are produced using story boards and could the same story board used to analyze the digital stories?
Now the team is cutting and pasting screen shots of digital stories and chatura is busy developing a computer based programme to analyze these screen shots.
More on the story Board Analysis approach to follow
