Digital Storytelling
This contribution explains how, by working together with the residents of a public housing complex in Montreal and with other partners, we attempted to add other representations of the residents’ everyday realities to the imagery, conceptions and stereotypes conveyed within media spaces that are generally occupied by experts who speak about and for these individuals. More specifically, the article details the first of four components of an « infrastructure of visibilisation » co-developed between 2008 and 2010 in the course of the author’s doctoral research, i.e., a component based on digital storytelling. To do so, the text begins by defining « visibilisation » as an operational concept that is distinct from visibility and that can potentially generate recognition. Next, the article presents the advent and particularities of digital storytelling, as well as its ethnographic value. Finally, the text illustrates how we worked on visibilisation within an infrastructure where digital storytelling has become as much a tool for expression and recognition as a method and posture of research.