Digital storytelling using GIS web platforms for multimedia and new media information design

1. Digital Storytelling and New Media
Story Maps for Technical, Scientific, and Business Communication
Presentation by: Dr. Susan Rauch
March 3, 2017

2. What is…
Digital Storytelling
Using digital media or tools
to tell a story or narrative.
New Media
Highly interactive digital technology
e.g. blogs, websites, social media,
mobile apps
Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) Theory
Connects artistic vision and storytelling with digital technology from
artifact to categorizations. Applies spatial and comparative mappings
(Helmut Koenitz).

4. Story maps simplify the
storytelling process
Uses principles of information
and multimodal design to
make complex information
more usable, easy to
understand.
Why Story Maps?

5. Interactive Visual Tools for
project management, analysis,
decision support, modeling,
situational awareness, and
communication.
Combines authoritative maps
with narrative text, images, and
multimedia content to tell a
story.
Engages readers to participate
in the story.
Not just for technical and
scientific communication.
What are Story Maps?

6. mHealth/eHealth
Engineering FinanceEnvironmental Community
Global Sustainability
Create reports, training materials, presentations, instructional guides,
journey maps, literary and historical narratives.
Historical Archive
Where are Story Maps Used?

7. Journey and User Maps
OTHER TYPES OF STORY MAPS
Literary Journey: Interactive
GIS/Timeline
Graphical representations of an
event or process by displaying items
sequentially along a line.
Literature - interactive strategy for
identifying story schema and
grammar. (Dimino et al. 1990; Howard
1989)
Arranges user stories to help
understand functionality and
accessibility.

8. 02 Digital Story Maps | ENVIRONMENTAL

9. How Are Story Maps Created?
Digital tools used for composing and design

10. Edit
Unnecessary
Detail
Story Maps
Creative
Process
Strive
for clarity
Consider UX
Accessible
Language
Avoid
Jargon
Excess hyperlinks
that detract
from navigation
Strive for
Simplicity
Legends
Pop-ups,
Symbols
Semiotics
Connect to
Audience

11. 01 Information Design Sources: Duarte Slidedocs
Tell a Visual
Story
INFORMATION DESIGN
Make complex, densely written
information more interesting
Use data visualizations, map plotting,
“call outs,” legends, and pop-ups.

12. HOW INFORMATION DESIGN IS EFFECTIVE IN STORY MAPPING
• Chunking the text by topic
• Displaying it in a visually interesting way
• Annotate maps with call outs, pop-ups, and data visualizations

13. REVISION ANALYSIS: How to apply story board and information design
concepts

14. BEFORE AFTER
APPLYING GOOD INFORMATION DESIGN PRINCIPLES

15. Types of Student Projects and Learning Outcomes
for Digital Storytelling
• Community Engagement/Service Learning: Community
and/or Cultural Narratives
• Multimodal Scientific and Technical Writing: Reports and
Presentations
• Literary Journey Mapping: Non-fiction literary works.
Timeline of places and events.
• Instructional or Procedural Materials: Digital composing
and information design
• History: Multimedia archive, oral history, journey timeline
of people, places, events, and times

16. How will you tell “your” story?
QUESTIONS?

17. SOURCES CONSULTED
• ArcGIS Story Maps.
• ESRI News and Publications online.
• Dimino, Joseph, et al. "Story grammar: An approach for promoting at-risk secondary students' comprehension of literature."
The Elementary School Journal 91.1 (1990): 19-32.
• Gadoloua, Eleni, et al. "Storytelling, Spatial Standards and Cultural Heritage Management." Proceedings of 13th AGILE
International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Geospatial Thinking, Guimaraes, Portugal. 2010
• Gardill, M. Cathleen, and Asha K. Jitendra. "Advanced story map instruction: Effects on the reading comprehension of students
with learning disabilities." The Journal of Special Education 33.1 (1999): 2-17.
• Johnston, Kevin, et al. Using ArcGIS geostatistical analyst. Vol. 380. Redlands: Esri, 2001.
• Howard, Ronald A. "Knowledge maps." Management science 35.8 (1989): 903-922.
• Koenitz, Hartmut. "Towards a theoretical framework for interactive digital narrative." Joint International Conference on
Interactive Digital Storytelling. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Koenitz et al. …Mapping the Evolving Space of Interactive Digital Narrative-From Artifacts to Categorizations.
• - ICIDS, 2013
• Koenitz et al. …Towards a unified theory for interactive digital storytelling-classifying artifacts: a workshop at ICIDS 2011
International Conference on Interactive Digital …, 2011.
• Koenitz, Helmut. Koenitz et al. Interactive Digital Narrative: History, Theory and Practice 2015
• McMahon, Mary, and Wendy Patton. "The systems theory framework A conceptual and practical map for story telling in
career." Career Counselling: Constructivist Approaches 2006 (2016): 2014.
• Thieler, E. Robert, et al. The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.0-an ArcGIS extension for calculating shoreline
change. No. 2008-1278. US Geological Survey, 2009. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20081278
• Ureda, John R., et al. "Abstract A38: Participatory cancer education through illustrated story maps to address cancer health
disparities." (2016): A38-A38.
• Wong, W. S. D., and Jay Lee. Statistical analysis of geographic information with ArcView GIS and ArcGIS. Wiley, 2005.