Accessible Stories within Mediascapes

This article presents the first steps in investigation of potential for digital storytelling and museums to be used as instruments access, enablers epistemic poietic agency. Digital migration are a case study explore what ways impacts meaning-making processes performed by migrants, allowing them become active creators disseminators their own experiences. Through combination corpus linguistics, systemic functional lexical semantic analysis, an ad-hoc comparable migrant narratives English Italian was cross-examined order scrutinise conceptual categories activated these stories. The mixed-methods analysis led identification most common lexico-semantic features forming knowledge frames experiential world migrants. Results show that each national narrative makes use its grammar domains, set syntactic patterns associated with production stories within context transmedia textual subtypes. These domains strategic, they give access marginalised museum settings. Lay summary Adopting perspective accessibility studies, is interpreted series enabler That is, empowers people express voice In investigate tool we created made spread across platforms. Then through quantitative qualitative methodologies examine More specifically, analysed identified which linguistic strategies have been employed storytellers inform audience, adopted tell experiences expectations, similarities or differences exist among told migrants who settled down different parts world. Showing patterns, our results support idea novel environments jointly empower tools conditions take proactive role.