Mediatized Stories in Mediatized Worlds

Youth use digital media for self-representations in different life settings, and young people practise ‘digital storytelling’ in particular ‘mediatized worlds’. This book aims to explore the extent to which contemporary social worlds and lifeworlds are mediatized. The international Mediatized stories project may throw light on digital storytelling in mediatized worlds, and the dimensions of mediatized worlds — as laid out in the introduction to this volume — may help analyze findings from the Mediatized stories research. This is the double ambition of this chapter: to locate digital storytelling in mediatized worlds and to reinterpret those mediatized stories with the analytical categories of mediatized worlds.