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New issue of ROTURA — Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes, dedicated to “Biographical Narratives and Digital Media Literacy in the Arts and Society,” is now available

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This special issue of ROTURA — Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes presents a dossier dedicated to the multiple intersections between biographical narratives and digital media literacy. The issue explores how the fusion of personal storytelling and digital literacy contributes to the development of critical thinking, the expansion of diverse voices, and the valorisation of cultural memory in the digital present.

The articles gathered here highlight the importance of personal and collective stories as fundamental tools for understanding human experience, constructing historical memory, affirming cultural identities, claiming the right to the city, and fostering digital competencies.

Among the themes addressed are:

• The importance of biographical narratives for understanding history and public identity, analysed by Stephen Morgan and Cyril J. Law Jr., who explore the impact of individual testimony in the construction of collective memory and morality.
• Generative digital art as a model of collective memory in transformation, presented by Pedro Alves da Veiga, who draws on interviews collected in the project Conta.Me to create a dynamic visual and narrative experience.
• The role of digital counter-narratives in challenging exclusionary norms in urban space and promoting inclusive citizenship, analysed by Isabel Carvalho.
• The development of digital literacy among students through digital storytelling projects in design and media arts, as discussed by António Maneira and Mónica Mendes.
• The deconstruction of the interface in digital arts, examined by José Carlos Neves and José Gomes Pinto, who discuss the role of interactivity and the active position of the viewer in Neves’s work.
• Brazilian cinema as a form of cultural resistance, particularly the film Rio, 40 Graus, which faced state censorship and opened the way for debates on social rights, race, and class, a topic explored by António Luiz do Nascimento and Celso Luiz Prudente.

Together, these studies demonstrate the central role of biographical narrative in mediating between the individual and the collective, the real and the virtual, and the historical and the contemporary. They highlight the need to reinvent ways of telling and experiencing stories that expand critical awareness and expressive possibilities across both digital and analogue worlds.

Rotura Journal:Narrativas Biográficas e Literacia dos Media Digitais nas Artes e na Sociedade | Rotura – Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes

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