Lambert summary

Darrin Gailey

Designing in Digital:  Distribution, Ethics, and the Politics of Engagement

                  Summary:

This chapter debates the development and issue of ethics in the world of digital storytelling. In the beginning, ethics in mass media wasn’t an issue due to a small amount of participation, however, today ethics is a problem due to so many are contributors in visual media. through self-awareness, one may participate in ethics.

Main Points:

-        Ethics Framework-creating a outline of work to influence.

-        Publication-is it private or public?

-        CDS-workshops for expression through digital storytelling.

-        Genie Stays in the bottle- sharing the digital media created is up to the creator. This is not to be influenced by CDS which was created to be an outlet

Example:

A really good example would have to be Allison Myers’. The challenge in helping communicate a story was useful because it allows us to see how difficult it is in sharing these stories.

Response:

Lambert deals with ethics as a private and public matter, which I agree is a good way to think about it. I agree with the author that when telling stories through digital media, or stories in general, that ethics are extremely important. The only thing I wonder is at what stage/age does ethics start to matter to us, when do we learn them?