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In the 21st Century, readers will turn on and interact with literature that is displayed on affordable, book-sized computers. Electronic fiction forms will include "narrabases" (nonsequential novels that rely on large computer databases); "narrative data structures" that elegantly organize fictional information on eye-pleasing computer screens; complex narrative investigations based on the adventure story model developed in computer games; and stories told collaboratively by groups of writers in online communities. Computers may even store their own observations and use them to tell their own stories in their own words.

Transliteracy and polyphonic narrative: a case study "Judith Aston is a specialist in cross-cultural communication and digital media practice. She was a pioneer in the emergent multimedia industry in the mid-1980s, working with the BBC Interactive Television Unit, Virgin Publishing, Apple Computers and the Soros Open Society Institute. Based in Bristol, she now divides her time between teaching and practice-led research in the Creative Arts Faculty at the University of the West of England. " Judith Aston "Using Digital Media to Create a Multilayered Associative Narrative "

However in court I argued that Facebook is essentially a fantasy environment, and that expressions within Facebook should be regarded as existing within a virtual reality. The purpose of Facebook is to offer its users a stage upon which to construct a shared narrative, an interactive play, that while based on real life, is in fact fantasy. Unlike a resume or CV, people spin their profiles to reflect the more positive and attractive elements of their personality

make take and publish multimedia narratives to mobile devices

make take and publish multimedia narratives to mobile devices

This graduate level module will be of interest to new media practitioners/writers/artists as well as those hoping to leverage aspects of new media technology and thinking in their creative practise.  Note: You don't need to be a U of A student in order to take this course. See the information on Open Studies at the end of this module outline.

Links to Interdisciplinary Storytelling Resources

Links about Journaling, Memoir-Writing, and Personal Storytelling

sehr schöner Link. Danke! Gruss, Axel

Diese Site veröffentlicht den Briefwechsel zwischen Schiller und Goethe aus den Jahren 1794 bis 1805 in Echtzeit, das heißt, die Briefe werden um 215 Jahre versetzt an dem Datum veröffentlicht, an dem sie geschrieben wurden. Beginn ist der 13. Juni 2009; bereits am 12. Juni werden Goethes Widmung an den König von Bayern und das Vorwort zur zweiten Auflage von Hermann Hauff veröffentlicht

Canadian author Michael Winter, who wrote The Big Why, will release excerpts of his next novel through a series of posts on the Internet site Facebook.

a facebook profile photo in Obama style

A Flickr group on storytelling

Imagine the stories we would tell, if we could construct video movies as easily and playfully as we now use spoken language. The Story Networks group explores storymaking principles and technologies that enhance cinematic story creation and sharing as activities of intelligent play and seeks to discover the empowering and framing constraints of designing these experiences for digital delivery over emerging networks in contemporary social contexts. Research complements, informs and is informed by research on Media Fabrics at the Interactive Cinema group at the MIT Media Lab.

Over the weekend I took a trip through Facebook to look at the various Facebook profile photos that my friends and their friends had posted. The profile photo is probably the single most important component for personal expression. That's why studying our profile photos will often reveal what is most important to us

Hamlet told in the form of a Facebook Newsffed

'Flight Paths' seeks to explore what happens when lives collide - an airplane stowaway and the fictional suburban London housewife, quoted above. This project will tell their stories. 45 Through the fiction of these two lives, and the cross-connections and contradictions they represent, a larger story about the way we live today will emerge. The collision between the unknown young man, who will be both memorialised and brought back to life by the piece, and the London woman will provide the focus and force for a piece that will explore asylum, immigration, consumer culture, Islam and the West, as well as the seemingly mundane modern day reality of the supermarket car park itself. This young man's death/plummet will become a flight, a testament to both his extreme bravery and the tragic symbolism of his chosen route to the West. The initial goal of this project is to create a work of digital fiction, a 'networked book', created on and through the internet.

One minute, Rick Blackwell is sightseeing at St. Pancras in London; the next, he's caught up in a conspiracy that takes him far away from home. Rick needs to use all his skills to find out why a dying stranger seemed to know his name - and to stay alive. In this homage to The 39 Steps, Charles Cumming takes us on an adrenaline-fuelled adventure written and designed for Google Maps.

Eine neue Hörspielfassung von Franz Kafkas "Der Process" macht jedem möglich, den Roman-Kapiteln eine eigene Reihenfolge zu geben. Welches die richtige ist, weiß nämlich niemand.

Russell's disappointment in LinkedIn implies that the term 'social networking' makes little sense if we leave out the objects that mediate the ties between people. Think about the object as the reason why people affiliate with each specific other and not just anyone. For instance, if the object is a job, it will connect me to one set of people whereas a date will link me to a radically different group. This is common sense but unfortunately it's not included in the image of the network diagram that most people imagine when they hear the term 'social network.' The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people.

As we journey on what Dante called "our life's way", we are all creating private maps and organising experiences and memories along highly personal geographies. In return, maps invite travel, they inspire journeys. Each place-name is a prompt for a story. We each project our inner-self into this fictional territory of possibilities. Each crossroad offers a multitude of departure points for the unknown, for the unseen, for the untold desires. The map of Inward destinations summons the spectator to accommodate and project their own experiences onto it, and conform it to their reality.