ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the fundamental and practical ways that diverse environments for listening shape the way that stories are moved and transformed and the way that listeners might experience and make sense of digital stories. It explains both online and offline environments for listening across three categories. The chapter discusses offline social occasions for listening such as story circles, project launches, or exhibitions that are featured in much of the existing digital storytelling literature. It examines bespoke infrastructures for story listening such as online repositories of digital stories. The chapter considers the listening via more generalised social media platforms such as YouTube, blogs, and Facebook. A networked meta-digital story is one that emerges from the process of reflective multimodal narrative to include diverse but interrelated story elements across different listening infrastructures and environments. The chapter reviews some of the important archives that focus on stories of health, well-being, and disability.
