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This book explores contemporary approaches to mobile storytelling, with contributions covering mobile education, news and screen storytelling, creative practice research, and the impact on vulnerable communities and social innovation. With 18 original chapters, Schleser and Xu bring together international media and communication scholars, digital storytellers, filmmakers, musicians, and educators to discuss the significant contributions made by mobile storytelling within academia, culture and society, resulting in a vibrant and interdisciplinary collection that will be a valuable resource to researchers across the arts, humanities and social sciences.This edited collection is a result of the collaboration between Mobile Studies International (MSI) and the Mobile Innovation Network & Association (MINA) at the International Mobile Storytelling Congress (IMSC) at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China

The project 'Older People: Equity, Respect & Ageing' (OPERA) focusses on understanding firstly, how ageism is perceived and experienced by older people in the EMR and secondly, how that evidence can be used to frame a co-designed digital intervention into community experiences of ageism in the Eastern Metropolitan region (EMR). The assumption underlying this project was that ageism and ageist behaviours are drivers of elder abuse – this project evaluates a methodology for disrupting ageist assumptions and behaviours as one part of a primary prevention strategy. The OPERA project was divided into two phases; firstly, Phase I completed community consultation about experiences of ageism among older people in the EMR. The findings from Phase I were subsequently used to inform Phase II, the co-design & development of a digital intervention (digital storytelling videos) led by Swinburne University. The issue of elder abuse is becoming more prominent in Australia with both state and federal governments highlighting the need for prevention and response interventions. However, compared to other forms of family violence, elder abuse is not well understood by the general public, and continues to be underreported in Australia. Similarly, while there is a growing understanding and acceptance of elder abuse as a form of family violence, successful primary prevention strategies are lacking in many parts of the service sector. The major issues facing policy makers, advocates and service providers engaged in this space are firstly, the dearth of publicly available evidence about drivers of elder abuse, and secondly, the lack of evaluated primary prevention strategies.