digital storytelling at case western, part 1

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storyte lling in the 21 st century Case Western Reserve University - April 2012

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My Case Western digital storytelling talk, first part.

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  • 1.Digitalstorytelling in the 21 stcenturyCase WesternReserve University -April 2012

2. But wait, whats storytelling? 3. The Freytagtriangle: 4. Delight and instructOrthepersonal? 5. Stories are: About someone important About an important event About what one does?From the CDS Cookbook http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.html 6. A certainkind ofpersonalexperience 7. How much is mystery? 8. The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. 9. The last man on Earth sat alone in a room.There was a knock on the door.(Fredric Brown, Knock, 1948) 10. Mystery?It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 11. Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again. 12. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. 13. What isntstorytelling? 14. A list definitionFor a given audience, astory is a sequence ofcontent, anchored on aproblem, which engagesthat audience withemotion and meaning. 15. Storytelling always uses new techhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio,http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/1466220116/ 16. Digital storytelling in the1990sWeb 1.0 storytelling Browser-focused Hypertext Connected with Multimedia offline, analog Fan and creatorcontentcommunities(textbooks) Evanescent 17. Web 1.0 era storytellingEmail chainletters, jokes Social Boundariesfuzzy Microcontent Virtualcommunityfacilitation(1980s on) (Snopes.com) 18. Dear American:I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship witha transfer of funds of great magnitude.I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country hashad crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would bemost profitable to you.I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be myreplacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, youmay know him as the leader of the American banking deregulationmovement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.This is a matter of great urgency(http://www.thenation.com/blogs/jstreet/363133/bailout_satire) 19. Web 1.0 storytellingExample:DreamingMethods(2000ff)http://www.dreamingmethods.com/ 20. Example: Teds Caving Journal (circa 2001) (one copy, from http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html) 21. Features: Multilinear Multimedia Browserish Serialstructure 22. Digital storytelling roots 23. Digital storytelling roots 24. Digital storytelling rootsEffective: Storytelling, nottechnology per se Personal connectionNITLE variant: Non-personalDigital Storytellingnarratives at Ukaiah, 2006 Campus focus 25. Educational projects growing Community Curricula Support(http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/StorytellingintheAgeofthe/42327) 26. Republishcontent viablog Pedagogy Socialfeedback Publicity Pepys Diary DraculaBlogged Ulysses andda Vinci perday 27. The networked book 28. a networked book is an open book designed to be written, edited and read in a networked environment (IFTFTB) 29. Blogging around a bookExtendednetworks Support wikis(example:Pynchon) WilliamGibson losthis Node 30. temporally structured archival Twittering 31. Wikistorytelling(http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) 32. Can a collective create a believablefictional voice? How does a plot findany sort of coherent trajectory whendifferent people have a different ideaabout how a story should end oreven begin? And, perhaps mostimportantly, can writers really leavetheir egos at the door?About, http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/About 33. Embedded within Slideshare Web platform apparatus 34. Embedded within blog