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106 | Digital Media and Storytelling in Higher Education media posts have been turned into books and a website which categorizes the stories by country and by topic.“ On other web 2.0 platforms, such as YouTube, anyone can comment on testimonies about abuse or addiction. In her research, Iyanga-Mambo (2021) found that the comments section on Web 2.0 platforms can serve the function ofa reflective support group. The commenters expressed solidarity in an asynchronous but expressive way which is similar to the interactions seen in self-help or narrative therapy groups. Social media has provided an opportunity for survivors of similar events to express their support through their comments and sometimes engaging dialogues which develop under the posts. Another form of oral history research is the study of personal oral history narratives evoked in participatory community art workshops from a Freirean framework (1972). A participatory public history workshop usually uses the tools of arts-based research to engage members of a small local community to explore the narratives of the community and its individuals collectively. The projects end with a product that addresses the personal life stories of the participants. Oral history narratives can take many different forms: they can be published on different Web 2.0 platforms such as blogs, vlogs or even podcasts, but social media is also a great medium to share such projects. In Säo Paulo, the Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person)” began a unique experiment in the early 1990s. The virtual and collaborative museum presented individual narratives, regardless of whether they were the stories of famous or ordinary people. The aim of the museologists and historians was to create a collective communal memory. The narratives are not collected by professional librarians or researchers, but can be recorded and submitted by the narrators themselves. The community platform also allows narrators to create their own archives where they can upload other peoples life stories. The Museu da Pessoa has already branched out to Portugal, the USA, and the UK. Between 2006 and 2008, the cultural and social institution, together with youth NGOs, carried out a large-scale DST project called One Million Youth Life Stories. The project aimed to give young people in Brazil the opportunity to showcase their identities and understand their role in history by publishing their stories on different platforms (e.g., social media, video sharing, and museum exhibitions). The young participants could create their life story narratives in any format, but the DST workshop provided an opportunity for them to discuss their dreams as well as difficulties with their families and cultural background in a focused way (Misorelli, 2017). For the DST method developed in StoryCenter, Hill (2008) created a research and education program that provided an opportunity for geographically distant groups to reflect on their individual life situations as well as on global 46 https://www.humansofnewyork.com/ #7 https://museudapessoa.org/
