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Digital Storytelling WiSe 2022 Ivone Neiva Santos: Searching for Empathy in Digital Environments

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A story about Joana and her quest for empathy in digital environments

By Ivone Neiva Santos

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Joana works in science communication projects with young students

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Working at home during the lockdown, Joana thinks about how this change affects learning

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Joana thinks about students' emotional well-being, considering the  difficulties posed by online environments to effective communication.

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What happens to emotional connection in digital environments?         
If communication is affected by this change how does this implies with the development of empathy at young ages?

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Joana calls Joaquim, a developmental psychologist who studies the subject of empathy

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Teaching empathy in Danish schools has been mandatory since 1993. It is considered just as important as teaching maths or literature.  

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Joana watches the video









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How can we climb down in distance? 
How can empathy work in online environments?                                           




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Joana is worried and wants to study the subject more deeply, to help students' well-being in online environments

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On the radio, Joana listens to an engaging immersive story.
She feels transported to the story and thinks that perhaps she found her answer: SOUND!
 Adventures in Metaplasticity

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Joana writes to the storyteller, Hanna

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Dear Joana,


It is always lovely to hear from a fellow sonic researcher!

Yes, sound and hearing are strongly linked to emotional experience and may be a path to empathy in digital environments. I create immersive audio stories for people living with Parkinson's disease.

Adventures in Metaplasticity is an interdisciplinary Arts and Health project which contemplates emotional engagement and...

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Siobhan McHugh's "Emotional History" is an exercise to harness audio’s capacity for emotion and develop students’ technical but also emotional skills.

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Joana and Joaquim explore  Hannah and Siobhan’s work and understand the capacity of sound and audio narratives to convey emotions and empathy. 

Sound has no barriers, even online, and is an embodied, emotional and participatory experience!

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Joana is using more sound in her work and inviting her students to do the same.

And she is listening to the impact of these changes on students' emotional connection during online sessions.

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Blakemore, T. & Agllias, K. (2020) Social media, empathy and interpersonal skills: social work students’ reflections in the digital era, Social Work Education, 39:2, 200-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2019.1619683


Di Fabio, A., & Kenny, M. E. (2021). Connectedness to nature, personality traits and empathy from a sustainability perspective. Current Psychology, 40(3), 1095–1106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-0031-4

McHugh, S. (2014). Audio Storytelling: Unlocking the Power of Audio to Inform, Empower and Connect. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 24(2), 141–156.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1326365X14555277

Rodero, E. (2008). Educar a través de la radio. Signo y Pensamiento, 52, 97–109.  

 RSA (2013). Brené Brown on Empathy. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw&t=0s    

Slattne, H. (2021). Creating immersive audio stories for people with Parkinson’s disease. The Writing Platform.
http://thewritingplatform.com/2021/02/creating-immersive-audio-stories-for-people-with-parkinsons-disease/
















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