What’s Your Research Story? is an online exhibit about crafting digital narratives as academics using infographics. Designed for academics (particularly in the humanities), this digital exhibit consists of two parts:

1) A RESEARCH COMPONENT which addresses challenges related to digital storytelling in academic contexts and proposes the infographic medium as a solution 

2) A DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE providing a short tutorial on how to create a basic animated infographic for academic researchers without any prior digital design experience.

When faced with the task of creating an animated infographic, I struggled to find helpful resources online to help facilitate the creation of an infographic for someone who did not have any prior digital design experience. I wanted to learn how I could create an infographic using tools I already had and without having to install and learn how to use additional content creation programs. The objective of this digital resource is to address this void and encourage digital storytelling within academia using animated infographics to allow research to be shared and understood by a wide range of audiences.

This digital exhibit is a research project within the Stories In Play Initiative (SIPI), created by graduate students in the Masters of Digital Media and Literatures of Modernity programs at Ryerson University. My research project contributes to the SIPI theme of "Computational-Creative Literacy" as it addresses the issue of computational literacy when it comes to creating digital narratives as an academic researcher. My research project also contributes to SIPI initiatives as its goal is to address challenges in digital storytelling and facilitate knowledge exchange between academic practioners. To learn more about SIPI, please visit our initiative's website HERE.