Content tagged "narrative"
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Internet Killed the Michelin Star: The Motives of Narrative and Style in Food Text Creation on Social Media
While the underlying purpose of the construction and consumption of food texts remain the same from analog to digital form, the authority of food culture and its complimentary narrative control has shifted as a result of the convergence of food texts and digital media affordances.
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The Allure of Choice: Agency and Worldbuilding in Branching-Path Transmedia Universes
Agency is often taken as a given in branching-path stories because they, almost by definition, allow for enhanced user involvement. But this truism hasn’t changed as the structure of the worlds that these branching texts exist within have.
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Narrative as an Aid for the Doctor-Patient Relationship in China
In China, when doctor-patient tension intensifies, some news media tend to blame the doctors, using misleading narratives to create sensationalism, thereby aggravating the antagonism between the society and medical professionals.
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Re-Enchanting Spaces: Location-based Media, Participatory Documentary, and Augmented Reality
“In keeping with an emphasis on new forms of storytelling, I propose a taxonomy for location-based media that distinguishes three different levels of participation and user agency: Consumption, Interaction, and Participation.”
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Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look
A panel with some of the leading creators in virtual reality — Raney Aronson-Rath, Jessica Brillhart, Nonny de la Peña, and Caspar Sonnen — to better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
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Data Auralization: Different Modes of Sensing Sensor Data
Lily Bui writes, “I wanted to play with the concept of ‘mundane data’ and think about how else it could be used.”
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Jason Mittell: “Strategies of Storytelling in Transmedia Television”
Middlebury’s Jason Mittell on how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions, including video games, novelizations, websites, online video, and alternate reality games.
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Information Visualization as Creative Nonfiction
Narrative thinking as an orienting concept to support the production and evaluation of information visualizations.
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The New Digital Storytelling Series: Hugues Sweeney
An interview by the MIT Open Documentary Lab
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Podcast, Tom Streeter: “The Internet and the Habitus of the New: What Would Pierre Bourdieu Say About Facebook?”
Tom Streeter: “Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of a habitus offers a way to make sense of the way digital novelty has become woven into the fabric of how we live.”
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A Narrative Generation Conversation
Three creators of poetic and imaginative systems speak about computational creativity, narrative generation, and the way systems for this sort of work are culturally generated.
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Podcast: David Kelley, “The Color of Seawater Through a Picture Window”
David Kelley primarily works with digital video installation and photography, with recent projects involving performance and sculpture.
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Podcast: Clara Fernández-Vara, “Performing Videogame Narratives in Space: Indexical Storytelling”
Clara Fernández-Vara compares and contrasts videogames with theatre to understand how they can incorporate narratives as part of the performance.
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Performing Videogame Narratives in Space: Indexical Storytelling
Clara Fernández-Vara compares and contrasts videogames with theatre to understand how they can incorporate narratives as part of the performance.
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Podcast: “Media in Transition 7: Unstable Platforms”
What is happening to our culture’s stories and story-tellers? How are new technologies transforming our public discourse?
