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Course description
How can you use storytelling as a creative strategy for the digital age? Learn how to craft experiences through the power of story across a variety of media forms. Creative assignments explore fundamental storytelling elements and tactics, and interrogate how form impacts content. In the final project, students will push the boundaries of storytelling and content creation to develop a concept pitch for a project of their own design.
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In the Library's collections
You can use the subject headings below to start your search for resources on storytelling. It looks like most of the books in our collection are located in the Baker-Berry Cook area of Berry Level 3.
- digital storytellingMost items have a call number beginning with QA 76.76 .I59. Take a look and browse.
- "digital storytelling"This is a general search in our discovery system. You will find a combination of different resources for digital storytelling.
Introductory reading(s)
Digital storytelling: a creator's guide to interactive entertainment by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781135044442Publication Date: 3rd ed.Digital Storytelling shows you how to create immersive, interactive narratives across a multitude of platforms, devices, and media. From age-old storytelling techniques to cutting-edge development processes, this book covers creating stories for all forms of New Media, including transmedia storytelling, video games, mobile apps, and second screen experiences. The way a story is told, a message is delivered, or a narrative is navigated has changed dramatically over the last few years. Stories are told through video games, interactive books, and social media. ...
Digital storytelling: form and content by Call Number: Baker-Berry Cook QA 76.76 .I59 D54 2017ISBN: 9781137591517This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore the uses of Digital Storytelling, which places the greatest possible emphasis on the voice of the storyteller. Case studies are used as a platform to investigate questions of concept, theory and practice, and to shine an interrogative light on this emergent form of participatory media. The collection examines the creative and academic roots of Digital Storytelling before drawing on a range of international examples to consider the way in which the practice has established itself and evolved in different settings across the world.
The power of data storytelling by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789353282905The first-of-its-kind book on data story telling set in the Indian context by an Indian author. Power of Data Storytelling is a book that aims to solve the classic dilemma of--How do I make company data interesting and present it in the form of a great data story for today's time-crunched professionals. The book focuses on various methods of converting dry facts and figures into interesting characters, events and relaying them in the form of a story to enable company's decision-making. ...
Storytelling in the digital age by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 56 .S7357 P46 2013ISBN: 9781137365286Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader.
Selected book title(s)
Digital storytelling, mediatized stories: self-representations in new media by Call Number: Baker-Berry Cook QA 76.76 .I59 D57 2009ISBN: 9781433102745Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on «me», flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling workshops. The resulting digital stories could be called «mediatized stories». This book deals with these self-representational stories, aiming to understand the transformations in the age-old practice of storytelling that have become possible with the new, digital media. Its approach is interdisciplinary, exploring how the mediation or mediatization processes of digital storytelling can be grasped and offering a sociological perspective of media studies and a socio-cultural take of the educational sciences. Aesthetic and literary perspectives on narration as well as questioning from an informatics perspective are also included.
The new digital storytelling: creating narratives with new media by Call Number: Baker-Berry Cook Easy QA 76.76 .I59 A42 2011ISBN: 9780313387494This book surveys the many ways of telling stories with digital technology, including blogging, gaming, social media, podcasts, and Web video.
New narratives: stories and storytelling in the digital age by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780803217867Just as the explosive growth of digital media has led to ever-expanding narrative possibilities and practices, so these new electronic modes of storytelling have, in their own turn, demanded a rapid and radical rethinking of narrative theory. This timely volume takes up the challenge, deeply and broadly considering the relationship between digital technology and narrative theory in the face of the changing landscape of computer-mediated communication. New Narratives reflects the diversity of its subject by bringing together some of the foremost practitioners and theorists of digital narratives. ...
Story circle: digital storytelling around the world by Call Number: Baker-Berry Cook QA 76.76 .I59 S785 2009ISBN: 9781405180597Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape. It covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling youth movement, participatory public history, audience reception, video blogging and micro-documentary Pinpoints who is telling what stories where, on what terms, and what they look and sound like. ...
Streaming video: storytelling across borders by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781479816866... Streaming Video maps this international production boom and what it means for producers, audiences, and storytellers. Through eighteen richly textured case studies, ranging from original Korean dramas on Netflix to BluTV’s experimental Turkish series, the book investigates how streaming services both disrupt and maintain storytelling traditions in specific national contexts. ...
Other library resource(s)
Narrative from the Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199791286Narrative is often simply equated with story, a sequence of causally linked events with a beginning, a middle, and an end; however, narrative has also come to be understood as an essential component of human discourse and a complex concept in its own right for many disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The study of narrative (narratology) has focused on written fiction, even though stories may be told (narrated) through a variety of media, including the cinema, but because motion pictures have historically drawn on literary sources, literary narratology has had a major influence on the study of film narrative as such. ...- Transmedia storytelling from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199791286Transmedia storytelling exists at the intersection of multiple academic disciplines and creative practices. It is generally understood as a story that is told across multiple media platforms. However, what distinguishes it from other multimedia stories is described by Henry Jenkins as “each new text making a distinctive and valuable contribution to the whole” (Henry Jenkins, Transmedia Storytelling: Moving characters from books to films to video games can make them stronger and more compelling, 2003). The ways in which scholars and practitioners discuss, evaluate, analyze, and design transmedia storytelling projects continues to be debated, and various frameworks have been proposed. ...
Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)
You can find scholarly literature for digital storytelling in a variety of journals. However, if you want to do targeted searching, you can use a subject specific data such as Film & Television Literature Index. You can also use the new search box at the top of the page.
Film & Television Literature Index, Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) and Humanities Abstracts all have scholarly articles pertaining to "digital storytelling." However, you can search all 4 databases at once within the interface they all share. Just pick one, go the "Choose Databases" at the top of the screen, pick the databases you want to search, click OK and begin searching. If you need other help, please contact me directly at the email to the left.
Film & television literature indexCall Number: Electronic resourceThis index covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Communication & mass media complete (CMMC) by Call Number: Electronic resourceThis is the main article index for the field of Communications and Mass Media.
MLA international bibliography by Call Number: Electronic resourceMLA International Bibliography indexes journal articles, books and dissertations. Coverage includes literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Screen studies collection by Call Number: Electronic resourceA comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
Web of science citation databases by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
Internet resource(s)
- Educational Uses of Digital StorytellingThe primary goal of the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling website is to serve as a useful resource for educators and students who are interested in how digital storytelling can be integrated into a variety of educational activities.
- StoryCenter
StoryCenter supports individuals and organizations in using storytelling and participatory media for reflection, education, and social change
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