Reading Time: 7 minutes In 2021, I attended the 10 Days on the Island festival in lutruwita/Tasmania as part of a research project exploring the social impact of the creative arts in Regional Australia. On my second day at the festival, I went to a small workshop Reaching Global Audiences with Local Storytelling led by Catherine Pettman from Rummin… Read more »
Articles by Donna Hancox
Transmedia Storytelling and Activism
Donna Hancox
Reading Time: 5 minutes 2020 and 2021 have left all of us (except, perhaps, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos) living with more uncertainty and vulnerability than we have allowed ourselves to admit previously. Like many, I have the very strong sense that a veil has been lifted, and we are in the midst of a series of societal reckonings… Read more »
Call for Writers
Donna Hancox
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Writing Platform offers a unique environment to publish writing that focuses on non-traditional. We publish at the intersection between technology and writing and support sharing knowledge that is underrepresented in traditional academic publishing. TWP connects you with your community of artists, scholars, and publishers and provides the capacity for high impact publishing…. Read more »
Call for Academic Articles
Donna Hancox
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Writing Platform offers a unique environment to publish academic writing that focuses on non-traditional research outputs and non-traditional research methods. We publish at the intersection between technology and writing and support sharing knowledge that is underrepresented in traditional academic publishing. TWP connects you with your community of scholars and provides the capacity for high… Read more »
CALL TO ACADEMICS: Short Essays on Theory or Practice
Donna Hancox
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Writing Platform offers a unique environment to publish academic writing that focuses on non-traditional research outputs and non-traditional research methods. We publish at intersection between technology and writing and support sharing knowledge that is underrepresented in traditional academic publishing. TWP connects you with your community of scholars and provides the capacity for high impact… Read more »
Everyday Stories and Creativity: Regional Queensland and Transformative Technology
Donna Hancox
Reading Time: 3 minutes Australia is a big country. Queensland is a big state in a big country, one that is particularly geographically dispersed and politically fractured. It is also home to some of the poorest areas in Australia that experience many barriers to accessing for arts and cultural activities. Government regional arts programs have the potential to develop and… Read more »
Watch STORY+ from Brisbane Writers Festival 2016
Donna Hancox
Reading Time: < 1 minute 2016 Story+ retured to Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) for its fourth year with internationally renowned award winning writer and digital creator Kate Pullinger and Google Creative Labs Director Tea Uglow in conversation with Dr Donna Hancox about the Future of Literature at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. This signature event offered the audiences a chance to explore our digital futures with two… Read more »
CALL TO ACADEMICS Your work published on The Writing Platform
Donna Hancox
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Amplified Activism: Transmedia Storytelling and Social Change
Donna Hancox
Reading Time: 4 minutes The avenues through which communities and community organisations raise awareness about the issues they face and how they agitate for change have developed rapidly in the past ten years; and digital technology has provided community activists with the means to quickly create and widely disseminate stories. Perhaps the most influential and wide reaching of recent… Read more »