Narra$ve ecology II
Wri$ng in hybrid ecosystem as a
swarm
Kai Pata

Course organiza$on
• Ques$on: Can collabora$ve storytelling
appear as a swarm behavior with 5 days?
• Possible solu$on: Joint blog, tags
• Which is the best place to become aware of
story traces?
• Possible solu$ons: Brightkite friendfeed, Flickr
tag, twiHer mashed tag

Hybrid space of the course
individuals
placefeed friendfeed mashing
Brightkite TwiHer Search twiHer #tag RSS feed
friendfeed collabora$ng
Flickr
(geo)tagging Map search
awareness
Facebook
Wordpress joint blog
friendfeed
informing
tagcloud

Story
dimensions in
joint blog
Awareness in flickr and twiHer

Which swarm phenomena appeared?
Individual search
Detect the signal
disturbance
Dis$nguishing Previous
feature experience
No$cing a story
Detec$ng aHractor Analogy Selected no$cing
object
Feedback loop
Following the from the
signal trail environment
Visibility
Collabora$ng,
Collec$ng and
Wri$ng narra$ve,
cloning the
leaving signal trail
mashing, tagging,
story
geo‐tagging Abduc$on
New
Increasing aHractor Modifying the signal
story
concentra$on
Which tools worked? Expanding, transla$ng, interpre$ng

Individual stories: Urban Design
Urban
design is
undergoing
hard $me ...

Individual
stories: Light
Lights on the
Night of Tallinn

Individual stories: Buildings
There's a par$cular
and really
interes$ng mix
between modern
and old
architecture in
Tallinn

Referencing on literature
Gosh! I never thought I would
see Voldemort statue... I
mean You Know Who... Hope
he is not a social network
addict :)

Assuming ac$on triggers
Compila$on of Street artworks found in Tallinn.
Some more advanced than others but bringing
some fun in dilapidated area!

Contras$ng objects and environment
I love the contrast
between the
destroyed area
and the brand
new car parked
in it !
Time ac$ng on the
city, and how
human being is
trying to fight it

Contras$ng subjects and environment
Be classy even if You are
on trash bin!
French Erasmus
students in Tallinn

Different people no$ce the same
Treehouse

Commen$ng as a form of no$cing
Embedding ac$on triggers to the hybrid space
I don’t exactly know what this
pain$ng represents, but it caught
my eye. On one hand it made me
think of panthers hiding, on the
other hand I was thinking of
movement.
Do you see something else in it?

Following the trace in town and
collabora$ng
I can follow his trail hihihihi…
Collabora$ng on “Hats”
OHavio ‐ #narra$veecology hats! ‐ photo: hHp://
bkite.com/078fo. hHp://$nyurl.com/cld87z

Collabora$ng: doors
Carina Carina
OHavio

Collabora$ng:
Brands
Designed T‐shirt :D

Ini$a$ng
Social
ac$vity

Mixed body parts
• As in previous projects there were less people on
images I came up with the idea of new narra$ve using
parts of bodies in urban environment and trace the
dimension of urban hybrid being, thus research how
different people perceive and par$cipate.
• For this experiment common tag besides
#narra$veecology is mixedbodies and then for
par$cular images ‐ head, foot, torso, arm.
• In flickr you can easily organise photos in a batch
(rotate, add tags, geo loca$on to all needed pictures at
once and send them to the group sets ;).

The flickr group is created
Mixed boy parts and you are welcome to
add your body parts.
It is not easy to trigger par$cipa$on

Best standards for web 2.0 storytelling as a swarm:
Friendfeeds in microblogs
Tagging is not so
Individual search
natural amer all!
Dis$nguishing Previous
feature experience
No$cing a story
Detec$ng aHractor Analogy Selected no$cing
object
Feedback loop
Following the from the
signal trail environment
Flickr
Visibility
was not Collabora$ng,
Collec$ng and
used by collec$ng the
leaving signal trail
many story
Wri$ng narra$ve, mashing,
tagging, geo‐tagging

And the winner is… 
Blog sta$s$cs from the swarm
Why some stories are
read more than others?