Web 2.0 storytelling platforms

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

What's web 2.0 about?
Quick recap
Microcontent
Social software
Multiply authored content
within content
located externally
Perpetual beta
Boundaries can be hard to find
All issues still on the table

Platforms
Blogosphere and character
“ As one day’s posts build on points raised or refuted in a previous day’s, readers must actively engage the process of “discovering” the author, and of parsing from fragment after fragment who is speaking to them, and why, and from where whether geographically, mentally, politically, or otherwise.”
-Steve Himmer, “The Labyrinth Unbound” (2003)

Platforms
Blogosphere and time
“ You know what's funny? I bet if I posted this email message on my blog, as a story, I'd get two dozen emails from readers — the ones who know how clueless I can be — telling me to get a clue, that you're obviously taking someone else. A bagel .”
-Postmodern Sass
http://www.postmodernsass.com/blogger/2005/04/my-baby-she-wrote-me-letter.html

Blog as story diary
Or several blogs: Dionaea House and Loreen Mathers ( http://www.dionaea-house.com/default.htm )
“ The LiveJournal of Zachary Marsh”

Blog as story diary
Futureblogging: “Harvey Feldspar's Geoblog”
( http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/local ) -Bruce Sterling, Wired , 2007

Bookblogging
http://www.pulsethebook.com/ - “networked book” (Institute for the Future of the Book)
And others http:// simonofspace.blogspot.com /

Bookblogging
"a networked book is an open book designed to be written, edited and read in a networked environment.“ (IFTFTB)
See also Googlization of Everything and Flightpaths ( http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/ and http:// www.flightpaths.net/blog/index.php/about / )

Republish content via blog
Pedagogy
Social feedback
Publicity
Pepys Diary
Dracula Blogged
Ulysses and da Vinci per day
( http://wwar1.blogspot.com/ )

Bookblogging
Extended networks
Support wikis (example: Pynchon)
William Gibson lost his Node
( http://www.nodemagazine.com/ )

Microbloglosphere
Twitter: a single narrative
Good Captain
http://twitter.com/goodcaptain
http://loose-fish.com/

Microbloglosphere
Twitter: aphorisms
Jenny Holzer
http://twitter.com/jennyholzer

Microbloglosphere
Twitter: class en masse
http://twitter.com/manyvoices

Wikistorytelling
The Penguin novel
( http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page )

Wikistorytelling Can a collective create a believable fictional voice? How does a plot find any sort of coherent trajectory when different people have a different idea about how a story should end – or even begin? And, perhaps most importantly, can writers really leave their egos at the door? “ About”, http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/About

Social slides
Barbara Ganley, “Into the Storm” (2007)
( http://www.slideshare.net/bgblogging/intothestorm http://bgexperiments.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/into-the-storm/ )

Embedded within Slideshare Web platform apparatus

Embedded within blog

Social photo stories
Flickr, Tell A Story in Five Frames group
Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Flickr, Tell A Story in Five Frames group ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/ )
Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Social photo stories Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Pedagogies:
Remix
Archive work
Social presentation
Visual literacy
( http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/discuss/72157603786255599/ ; http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ )

Social photos
Social image hypertext: Mission stencil story
( http://www.flickr.com/photos/9793231@N05/sets/72157600706628117/ )

Social photo storytelling pedagogy: USF digital journalism class (David Silver) ( http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/2007/02/digital-journalism-flickr-project.html )

Social photos
Pedagogy
Shifting work across venues
Archiving
Personal and private
( http://usfblogtastic.blogspot.com/ )

Storytelling by p odcast
The Yellow Sheet , by Librivox team (2007)
Text then podcast
http://librivox.org/the-yellow-sheet-by-librivox-volunteers/
More: Podiobooks, http://www.podiobooks.com/

Web video storytelling
Connect with I ( http://www.connectwithi.com/ )
Serial video
Fan content
Physical content

Web video storytelling
lonelygirl15 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15 )
YouTube serial video content
Local fan content
Distributed response
Hoax plot

Storytellerster
MySpace, Facebook as platform
Example: Silver Ladder
(Two of Clubs character on Myspace)

Untapped or supplementary?
Folksonomies?
for description: http://www.pulsethebook.com/
ManyEyes http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes

Untapped or supplementary?
Social Bookmarking: s upplementary?
Wrangle information about Web 2.0 storytelling

Multiplicity of platforms
Actually, none exist in isolation
some projects are based in multiple platforms
aura of social interaction based wherever people feel like it
can start in one, then expand

Multiplicity of platforms
New forms combining categories into one?
Voicethread Storybox ( http://www.story-box.co.uk/index.php )

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