contemporary storytelling

Das neue Projekt von Jason Eppink - inspiriert von den Surveillance Camera Players: "Surprise Surveillance Theater was an interactive theater experience, performed live for hundreds, unbeknownst to the unwitting stars of the show. It was part of the Lost Horizon Night Market, an extraordinary, modular, participatory art party that takes place in unmarked box trucks on low-traffic back streets in New York City. The goal was to take unwitting revelers and throw them into a narrative about a black market, requiring the target to pass secret notes, have rendezvous, wear a wire, and make a mystery delivery. All of this was watched by a live audience on more than a dozen TVs showing footage captured by strategically placed video cameras, but the scope of the experience was only revealed to the target at the very end when he or she delivered a secret package to the waiting audience." Via

An alternate realtiy game: "A few years ago, I started thinking about an entirely new way to tell a story, far different from traditional TV. I didn't just want to talk about 'saving the world' in fiction, I wanted to create a narrative that spilled out into the streets. One that you could live inside of for a while. How cool would it be, I thought, to create a story that exists all around you all of the time? On your laptop, your mobile phone, on your sidewalks, as a secret message hidden in your favorite song or while standing at the bus stop on your way to work.

Storytelling is crucial to our individual, communal and cultural identity. Story is learning, celebrating, healing and remembering. It can mark a life, enrich individual emotional and cultural development and assist in making sense of our world

Broadcastr is a Social Media platform for location-based stories. It enables the recording, indexing, listening, and sharing of audio content. Just like in human memory, every story is bound to a place.

Welcome to Pine Point, a multimedia documentary about a small mining town in the Northwest Territories.

Welcome to Pine Point, a multimedia documentary about a small mining town in the Northwest Territories. Pine Point was a single-industry town, and when the mine closed in 1988, the town closed along with it."

"The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda."

A very nice movie advert for an advertising agency. An old couple reminiscing about the good old times when they were still doing campaigns on long forgotten media such as Fakebook... (unfortunately for English (and German speakers) it is in Swiss German)

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"Täglich werden rund um die Welt 50 Millionen Tweets ausgesendet. Einige unter ihnen machen Schlagzeilen, viele verbreiten Poesie, sie stiften Verwirrung im Parlament oder erzählen große Dramen. Genau diese Tweets suchen wir. Tweets, die neben ihren 140 Zeichen auch noch eine Geschichte enthalten. "

Ich habe lange nachgedacht, worüber ich schreiben möchte und bin immer wieder beim Transmedia Storytelling gelandet: Der Kunst aus medienübergreifend vernetzten Geschichten eine Welt zu schaffen und erlebbar zu machen.

TEDxTransmedia 2010 is over. Thank you for being part of this DARING adventure! Below, you can find photos that give a great impression of the event. Moreover, all TEDxTransmedia talks are available here as well.

Ich habe lange nachgedacht, worüber ich schreiben möchte und bin immer wieder beim Transmedia Storytelling gelandet: Der Kunst aus medienübergreifend vernetzten Geschichten eine Welt zu schaffen und erlebbar zu machen.

Etwas verspätet, ein super gemachte digitale Weihnachtsgeschichte.

There are many great websites that provide opportunities for students to develop language skills, tell stories, and share back their knowledge in fun, creative, and meaningful ways each using a computer.  There are also terrific websites and portals which have links to excellent online interactives which can be used in the classroom  with an interactive whiteboard.  Below are links and short descriptions of these sites.

Der digitale Geschichtenerzähler ist - wie schon im ersten und zweiten Teil dieser Serie beschrieben - nicht nur ein erfahrener Social Web Admin (Administrator und Kommunikationsexperte in Accounts von Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,...) und Experte in Web-Medien-Produktion, sondern verfügt auch über das Know How und das Fingerspitzengefühl, ein transmediales Projekt und die daran beteiligten Partner zu managen.

Presentation about corporate story telling

Some truly brilliant work from BuzzFeed readers over this weekend in creating a couple of hundred totally convincing rock albums using the Wikipedia Album Generator. Objectively speaking, this may be one of the best things that has ever happened - I'm still checking back every hour or so to look at the new ones. Here are a few of my favorites so far. You can make your own to add to the collection here.