Digital storytelling as critical narrative intervention with adolescent women of Puerto Rican descent.

ABSTRACT: This article focuses on findings of a two-year pilot research study focused on addressing sexual and reproductive health inequities faced by adolescent women of Puerto Rican descent living on the mainland United States. Working with three groups of young women, in the pilot study we gathered ethnographic data in and around a group-based digital storytelling process to inform the development of a larger intervention. Digital stories are short (1-3 minute), participant produced videos that synthesize still and moving image, a voiceover recording of the participant telling her story, and background music and text to document personal experiences. Based on narrative analysis of digital stories and field notes written in and around the digital storytelling workshop process, as well as follow-up

SUBMITTER: Gubrium A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6531859 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature