On March 8, 2012, the Digital Story of Wynne Maggi’s experience in rural Pakistan was posted on YouTube.  She completed this approximately 4-minute video in 2011 as part of a workshop facilitated by the Center for Digital Storytelling, Colorado.  To tell her moving, personal experience as both outsider and insider to a community of Kalasha women, she uses voice-over narration and pictures from her trip to Pakistan, where she was conducting field research as an anthropologist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekJtwt6ynKw

Alternatively, after my colleague presented a digital story that was visually-based, without voice-over narration, mainly a collection of still and minimally moving images from a Tumblr site, I decided to seek out a Punjabi digital story on Tumblr.

http://mypunjabistory.tumblr.com/

http://mypunjabistory.tumblr.com/archive

In class, we discussed how different voices may be articulated via a range of formal characteristics. What really appealed to me, from the “My Punjabi History” Tumblr site, was the beauty and range of the pictures and text – I found the vast majority visually stunning.  In terms of capturing the voice of a people, these pictures are very effective.