The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media
by Bryan Alexander
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This book explores the history of storytelling itself as well as the use of digital tools from the 1980s through 2000, through modern digital storytelling, offering analysis and guidance regarding the use of digital video, podcasting, social media, gaming, mobile devices, virtual and augmented reality, and new storytelling apps and services. It concludes with practical advice about how to create and share digital stories using the most current tools.Tags
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Bryan Alexander is a born teacher, born storyteller, an online veteran, and a wonderfully readable writer: a perfect formula for a book about digital storytelling. Whether you are a teacher, a parent, or a citizen interested in the ways digital media are transforming the age old craft of storytelling, this book is for you.
Worth checking this book out if you are serious about creating digital content. Learning how to weave audio, video and text together to create a compelling narrative is becoming an essential part of the media and entertainment landscape. www.tellingdigitalstories.com
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Bryan Alexander is an internationally known futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher. A senior scholar at Georgetown University, he is the author of The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media, second edition, and Gearing Up for Learning beyond K-12.
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2011
- Epigraph
- Our tendency to see and explain the world in common narratives is so deeply ingrained that we often don't notice it - even when we've written the words ourselves. In the Conceptual Age, however, we must awaken to the power of... (show all) narrative. - Daniel Pink
Make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em wait. - attributed to Willkie Collins - Dedication
- To my children, Gwynneth and Owain, for their love of stories, the stories they have created, and the ones they'll go on to tell.
And to my wife, Ceredwyn, for the story of our love. That's the best tale I know. - First words
- I created my first digital story in 2003.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)We can guess at the future for now, until it arrives to tell us its new stories.
- Blurbers
- McKibben, Bill; Rheingold, Howard
Classifications
- Genres
- Technology, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 006.7 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Special computer methods (AI, barcoding, VR, web design, social media) Multimedia systems
- LCC
- QA76.76 .I59 .A42 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Instruments and machines Calculating machines Electronic computers. Computer science Computer software
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
