ELI Web 2.0 Storytelling workshop: Introduction

Web 2.0 Storytelling: Introduction ELI Annual Conference January 28, 2008 Bryan Alexander, NITLE

What is it?
An emergent set of storytelling practices, growing out of Web 2.0 technologies and cultural forms.

Caveats
This framework is probably not your project
Whole project versus piece versus principle

Who are people in this?
Roles
Producer
Consumer
Scholar
Teacher
Consultant
Supporter
Questions
Why these platforms?
How to discover and participate?
How to support?

But wait, what's storytelling?
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room.”

“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room.
There was a knock on the door.”
(Fredric Brown, “Knock”, 1948)

Beginning, middle, end
The Freytag triangle
Delight and instruct

Put another way
What are stories about? What is content?
About someone important
About an important event
About what one does
Center for Digital Storytelling, Digital Storytelling Cookbook. http:// www.storycenter.org/cookbook.html

Put another way
What are stories about? What is content?
Personal versus impersonal
Creative fiction vs nonfiction composition
Curricular vs campus vs personal vs etc.
(storyteller, Ripton Vermont, 2008)

Web 1.0 storytelling
What can we learn from it?
Hypertext
Multimedia
Browser-focused
Offline, analog content (textbooks)
Evanescent

Web 1.0 storytelling
Example: Dreaming Methods (2000ff)
http:// www.dreamingmethods.com /

Example: “Ted’s Caving Journal” (circa 2001)
(one copy, from http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html )

Features:
Multilinear
Multimedia
Very Web
Serial structure

Digital storytelling roots
Digital Storytelling movement
Digital Storytelling at Ukaiah, 2006

Educational projects growing
Community
Curricula
Support
( http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/StorytellingintheAgeofthe/42327 )

Digital storytelling
Transmedia storytelling (Henry Jenkins)
Multiple platforms
Commercial
Fan base…

Digital storytelling
Franchise or brand
Control across sites
Diffuse boundaries

Email chain letters, jokes
Social
Boundaries fuzzy
Microcontent
(Snopes.com)

Virtual community facilitation (1980s on)
http://www.unfiction.com/compendium/2006/11/10/undefining-arg/2/
Chaotic fiction, including ARGs

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