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I chose Digital Storytelling for my article as I have grown a deep interest in how Robert Irwin has used digital storytelling in Humanizando La Deportación. I am also very interested in learning more about how Digital Storytelling can be used as ethnographic fieldwork for research. Humanizando La Deportación does not have a Wikipedia page, so I decided to go with the more generalized article about Digital Storytelling.

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This article provided much information regarding digital storytelling, such as its use in education (with various educational uses). Still, some important components for a proper, insightful Wikipedia page were missing. While reading this article, I often found the flow for the Development and Pioneers and Components section was a bit hard to read as it tended to jump from one place to another.

The lead, for me, was a great way to introduce the concept of Digital Storytelling. It provided many academically acceptable resources for where the method is used and how it is distinguishable from other forms of electronic literature.

The introduction was relatively interesting as there were about 262 sentences without proper citations. More specifically, there were four paragraphs between the last and next citation, making it hard to believe that all that information might fall into only one citation.

This tends to happen many times throughout the article. While there are great sources here, I feel that they are not being used to their fullest advantage to better support the writing presented in the article.

For example, when discussing Digital storytelling in scholarly communication, they mention great sources of Digital Storytelling in academic research but fail to go into broader detail about the effect of using Digital Storytelling in academia.

Another important note is that the article was not fully neutral. For example, let's look at the following quote from the introduction:

"One can think of digital storytelling as the modern extension of the ancient art of storytelling, now interwoven with digitized still and moving images and sound. Thanks to new media and digital technologies, individuals can approach storytelling from unique perspectives."

It can be argued that the wording of "one can think" and "thanks to new media" do not represent a form of neutrality but instead an argument.

Another interesting point in the article I found was the "Use in therapy" section, which states: "A major contributor to this section appears to have a close connection with its subject." Then, it states, "It may require a cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page." After checking with the Talk Page, I found that it does not discuss this. If anything, the talk page does not have that much detail, with the most recent being from 2023. There are a few stuff from the late 2010s and some from the 2000s, but relatively little. It also has only been edited once in 2024 and twice in 2023. This is a concern, given that the sources may not be current.

Lastly, there were very few places for images and examples of Digital Storytelling.