Skip to main content

Home/ CMN450 Participatory Media and Communication/ Group items tagged storytelling

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Vincent Liu

The Rise Of Visual Storytelling - 0 views

  •  
    This article speaks on the evolution of storytelling, and how media such as pintrest, vine, twiter and facebook are the more effective routes (in terms of attracting views) of storytelling/media (because of the pictures and videos) but there are still a lot of companies that rely on slideshare as a media platform. It mentions some of the more popular platforms of media these days as videos, images, and memes
Brittany Richards

Study finds effective storytelling uses a four "I" approach - 0 views

  •  
    This article discusses four ways to enhance storytelling for listeners. I think the podcast regarding deep sea divers that we listened to in class definitely incorporates some of these techniques.
Brittany Richards

Want to Sell Your Ideas? Tell Engaging Stories. - 0 views

  •  
    This article talks about how to incorporate storytelling into a business pitch. It discusses how the art of telling stories allows the imagination to flourish and engage those you are talking to.
Vincent Liu

Writing Effective Narration - 0 views

  •  
    This is very good article for helping students write their narrative. It gives ten tips for helping you enhance your writing and speech.
Shalyn Millstone

10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained - 1 views

  •  
    This article written by Brad Templeton outlines 10 myths about copyright that people read on the web. It is a very useful article for those who are not sure about the general rules of copyright, as well as what they can and cannot do in regards to copyright.
Stanislav Gamar

Amazing crowdsourced music video uses thousands of mouse cursors as cast members | The ... - 0 views

  • Roel Wouters to create an browser-based experience that tracks your cursor movements and later integrates them into the video itself for future playback.
  • thousands of cursors form patterns by sticking within guidelines
    • Stanislav Gamar
       
      Please note that article does not have any questionable content. But if you follow the link and watch the actual video there is very mild nudity shown at the end of the video.
ilana enoukov

Ukraine And The Stage For Social Protests: When Familiar Visuals Go Viral - 0 views

  • social familiarity
  • both the creation and the consumption of these images on mobile devices speaks to the relative ease of tapping into that familiarity
  • Thanks to the startups and digital entrepreneurs of this last generation, we are all minor league auteurs or videographers, used to framing the shot, creating more drama, working the lighting.
    • ilana enoukov
       
      The power of social media. Everyone is a storyteller, and the simplicity and availability of electronics, social media, and the world wide web, makes it possible for anybody to be a relevant news anchor.
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • long-running debate in some wired intellectual circles about whether social media powers revolutions, whether Twitter or Facebook really assist movements – and on the other side, whether digital technologies now help malign governments in sniffing out and crushing dissent
  • Of course the networks matter – because they always have
  • Twitter isn’t a traditional broadcast company; there’s no editor-in-chief who can be bought or pressured
    • ilana enoukov
       
      Interesting point about Twitter becoming a replacement for traditional news outlets like television and radio. Had similar discussion in class.
  • They horrify, but they don’t necessarily empower – or encourage action
  • we can instinctively understand the smaller scale conflict against a familiar backdrop in the same way we can grasp what happened at the Boston Massacre or even Lexington and Concord versus how Washington conducted the siege at Yorktown. And the visuals – really the currency of social media – have that quality of being instantly understood.
  • What’s different is speed (no wait for the 11 pm news) and the ability of everyone to share those images, along with comments and outrage
  • “Facebook ‘likes’ are often ridiculed as meaningless, but they can make a person realize that their social network feels the same as they do—and that’s a socially and politically powerful thing.”
    • ilana enoukov
       
      Powerful because without awareness there will never be action.
  •  
    When social movement meets social media
1 - 7 of 7
Showing 20 items per page