This study investigates the impact of digital storytelling and communications in fostering transnational literacies for youth in a village in China participating in Global StoryBridges (GSB), an educational storytelling project that connects youth from different sites around the world via a video-sharing website. It also explores how youth construct their identities as a result of these transnational interactions. Building on the notion of chronotopes, a cross-event stance analysis was conducted to understand how the youth constructed representations of social types, i.e., figures of personhood, and how they aligned or distanced themselves from these representations across their discussions of the video and their digital interactions on the GSB platform. The findings provide insights into the youths’ complex identity work in their reconfiguration of timespace contexts to re-scale and contextualize their stories for those outside their communities. Implications for how educational researchers can utilize the notion of chronotopes to consider time-space in studies of transnational literacy and identity, and the potential of using digital storytelling to establish relations across contexts are discussed.
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