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This article examines a problem in the design offolklore websites: in what ways can technology be used to build into the documentation process itself an ethnographic guide to the materials that incorporates the folkgroup's own understanding of those materials, and how they can be best presented to the public? In examining this problem, the article focuses on the potential of digital media for addressing two concerns of contemporary folkloristics-reflexivity and ethnographic storytelling. This article discusses the use of new technology to tell the cultural story of a community on the Internet. The East Mims Oral History Project website, part of the Cultural Heritage Alliance website at the University of Central Florida School of Film and Digital Media (UCF Cultural Heritage Alliance, n.d.), seeks new ways to not only display materials from field research but also to experience and interact with them. The goal is to create a model for "reading" folklife materials that more actively involves the audience-where the process is acted out more than it is spelled out in words. The project, and the article that follows, ask how technology can be used to build into the documentation and presentation process itself an ethnographic guide to the materials that also incorporates the particular folk group's vision of how to present these materials. To do this, I will focus on the potential of digital media for addressing contemporary folkloristic concerns in two areas: reflexivity and ethnographic storytelling. |
