ABSTRACT
This chapter explores digital storytelling and listening in community and place-based health promotion settings. Storytelling researchers and practitioners from the fields of media and cultural studies, and narrative inquiry, have long recognised the dialogic and relational nature of storytelling and listening, that is, the complex, dynamic, and often fluid relationships between storytellers and listeners and the acts of listening to and telling a story. The chapter explores this concept of embodied and emplaced listening through a case study of storytelling work with children and young people in Australia. It talks about the sensory turn in social research that came in response to, and partly as a criticism of, former linguistic, visual, and aural turns that saw researchers focus intensively on one mode of experience and meaning-making at the expense of others. In essence, conscious and mindful embodied and emplaced listening has the potential to occur through the listener's "whole" body and self.
