Short StoriesBUILDING A NARRATIVE WITH SOCIAL MEDIA SESSION 1, MAY 6, 2014
A thousand words?
We have always been storytelling creatures
And our lives are ‘storied’ We are multi-faceted and multi-storied
Aggregating and rearranging our social media postings can represent these facets
And, as long as we are alive and tweeting, these stories evolve
We can either be intentional or un-intentional autobiographers…
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The medium for storytelling is always expanding
And the languages of story increase
Puck Magazine, 1881 Internet, 1980’s onward
Twitter 140 characters
Ability to embed:◦ Links◦ Images◦ Hashtags
Tweet anatomy
hashtagshashtags
linklink
retweetedretweeted
Feature added Fall 2013
No longer necessary to follow link to see images
Twitter – embedded pictures
Twitter – custom timelines
Introduced 11/2013
Allows users to curate tweets and create stories
Easily shareable◦ Re-tweet◦ Custom timeline widget
Instagram Capture images and video (15 seconds)
Smartphone app – Android and iPhone
Tags
Hashtags…narrative glue # used to group messages on many social networking sites A sorting and metadata mechanism 3rd party services can aggregate across social networks (eg, tagboard)
The Story Spine and Twitter Once upon a time...
Every day...
But, one day...
Because of that...
Because of that...
Because of that... n
Until, finally...
And, ever since then...
Curating narratives An experiment in storytelling
Working with 4-H youth to re-tell Romeo and Juliet using social media
https://storify.com/ptreadwell/performing-romeo-and-juliet-via-social-media
Tagboard
Storify
140 characters
https://twitter.com/twitterfiction
Storyboards and perspectives
From : Matt Madden – 99 ways to tell a story http://www.exercisesinstyle.com/
Developing, and breaking apart, a story
Just because the tools use 140 characters or 15 seconds of video doesn’t mean that the same rules do not apply.
Storyboarding and preplanning pay off
Once you have the story you can ‘parcel’ it out
Multiple medias allow for creative expression◦ Parsing out the action to twitter, dialog to video, scene transitions to images, etc…
Every story has a plot
Public Narrative Structure
Telling along ‘the arc of critical hope”
In stories that are meant to project our work forward we create an arc of the future.
A storytelling challenge – find and tell the arc of critical hope
Naiveté or despair are the easy arcs
Tech mediating the story Multi-medias
Peer interaction – it is ‘social’ media – opening up the telling to multiple perspectives, voices…
Stories as magnets or sponges
Contact Paul Treadwell
@ptreadwell
http://www.paultreadwell.com
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