A digitális történetmesélés etikai és jogi vonatkozásai

Abstract

In the last decade, digital storytelling has appeared in Hungary as a teaching-learning strategy in education and as an artbased participatory action research method in social sciences. The method supports students’ reflective involvement in subject content creation. It is also a self expression tool for people living on the periphery of society,mostly stereotypically portrayed in the mainstream media. The digital stories composed of still images, voiceover narration, and background music are special constructs because they simultaneously contain visual and musical materials from external sources and autobiographical elements, reflections, and images of the creators. However, most digital stories rarely include references to sources and Creative Commons restrictions for creators’ private images, music or video. It also raises questions about where the boundary of publicity lies in digital stories that are articulations of sensitive personal content. But itmay also be a concern to share minors’ digital stories on the Internet. While teachers emphasise the importance of creation and content sharing when developing digital literacy in students, and researchers are satisfied with getting sensitive and self-identifying information about the creator of a digital story, it is forgotten that ethical and even legal issues can arise when using digital storytelling for education or research. This paper focuses on the privacy, copyright, and ethical dilemmas and possible solutions for digital stories made public on content-sharing and social media platforms.