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MAIS 620: Digital Storytelling (Rev. 4) Report a Broken Link

MAIS 620 explores a variety of storytelling frameworks, including visual stories and photography, oral stories and alternate reality games, comics and the conjunction of image and text, digital video, collaborative stories, and stories in online works, games, and locative media.

E-Texts

Alexander, Bryan. 2017. The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media, 2nd ed. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Week 1: Introduction to Story

Haven, Kendall. 2015. “Your Brain on Story.” Filmed for the mediaX seminar: Science Storytelling & the Power of Participation, Stanford University, March 9, 2015. YouTube video, 28:02, March 30, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeGKGh8kDO4.
Hart, Jack. 2011. “Story.” In Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction, 6–19. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Yorke, John. 2014. “What is a Story?” In Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them, 3–23. London, UK: Penguin.
Davis, Jennifer. 2014. “Towards a Further Understanding of What Indigenous People Have Always Known: Storytelling as the Basis of Good Pedagogy.” First Nations Perspectives 6, no.1: 83–96.

Week 2: Story Structure

Hart, Jack. 2011. “Structure.” In Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction, 20–40. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Yorke, John. 2014. “Five-Act Structure.” In Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them, 32–44. London, UK: Penguin.
Mura, David. 2018. “Discovering Story.” In A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing, 92–99. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
Lamott, Anne. 1995. “Shitty First Drafts.” In Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, 20–26. New York: Anchor Publishing.

Week 3: Character Motivations and Goals

Hart, Jack. 2011. “Character.” In Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Fiction, 75–88. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Sarantinos, Gideon. 2013. “The Difference Between Character Motivation and Goal in your Story.” Scriptfirm, November 4, 2013. https://gideonsway.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/the-difference-between-character-motivation-and-goal.
Duke, H. 2015. “Character Desires versus Character Goals.” The Writersaurus, August 9, 2015. http://thewritersaurus.com/2015/08/09/character-desires-vs-character-goals.
Hauge, Michael. 2014. “Desire: The Driving Force of all Successful Stories.” Story Mastery, September 22, 2014. https://www.storymastery.com/story/desire-driving-force-successful-screenplays.
Kress, Nancy. 2013. “4 Ways to Motivate Characters and Plot.” Writers Digest, March 19, 2013. https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/4-ways-to-motivate-characters-and-plot.
Lamott, Anne. 1995. “Character.” In Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, 42–51. New York: Anchor Publishing.

Week 4: Who Knows What When: Point of View (POV), Framing, and Discourse

Smith, Hazel. 2005. “Narrative, Narratology, Power.” In The Writing Experiment: Strategies for Innovative Creative Writing, 84–109. Crows Nest, AU: Allen & Unwin.

NOTE: You can ignore the exercises on p. 85.
Loreck, Janice. 2016. “Explainer: What Does the ‘Male Gaze’ Mean, and What About a Female Gaze?” The Conversation, January 5, 2016. https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-does-the-male-gaze-mean-and-what-about-a-female-gaze-52486.
DSLRGuide. 2015. “Composition + Framing—Storytelling with Cinematography.” YouTube video, 8:44, February 7, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIanZimZR8.

Week 5: Thinking About Sound: Radio Stories and Audio Slideshows

Mead, Rebecca. “How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling.” The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/how-podcasts-became-a-seductive-and-sometimes-slippery-mode-of-storytelling.
McHugh, Siobhán. 2016. “How Podcasting is Changing the Audio Storytelling Genre.” The Radio Journal—International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 14, no. 1: 65–82. https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao.14.1.65_1.
Wen, Tiffanie. 2015. “Inside the Podcast Brain: Why Do Audio Stories Captivate?” The Atlantic, April 16, 2015. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/04/podcast-brain-why-do-audio-stories-captivate/389925.
Glass, Ira. 2010. “Harnessing Luck as an Industrial Product.” In Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, 2nd ed., edited by John Biewen, 64–76. Durham, NC: The Centre for Documentary Studies & University of North Carolina Press.
Ferrington, Gary. 1994. “Audio Design: Creating Multi-Sensory Images for the Mind.” Journal of Visual Literacy, 14, no. 1: 61–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/23796529.1994.11674490.
Lo, Elizabeth (director and producer). 2016. “Hotel 22.” New York Time Op-Doc. YouTube video, 8:20. January 30, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5pGdrizZMg.
Glass, Ira, host. This American Life (podcast). WBEZ. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/listen.

Listen to whatever episode is available for this week.
Lillie, Jonathan. 2011. “How and Why Journalists Create Audio Slideshows: An Exploratory Study of Multimedia Adoption.” Journalism Practice 5, no. 3: 350–365. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2010.53097.
Bradshaw, Paul. 2016. “Whatever happened to the audio slideshow?” Online Journalism Blog, December 13, 2016. https://onlinejournalismblog.com/2016/12/13/whatever-happened-to-the-audio-slideshow.

Week 6: New Media / New Stories: How Digital Technologies Create Opportunities for New Forms of Storytelling

Allison, Leanne and Jeremy Mendes, directors. 2012. Bear 71 [interactive documentary]. National Film Board of Canada, 20:00. http://bear71.nfb.ca/#/bear71.

Week 8: Visual Storytelling

Marker, Chris, director. 1962. La Jetée. Paris, France: Argos Films and Radio-Télévision Française. https://vimeo.com/502812461.
Block, Bruce. 2008. “Chapter 1: The Visual Components.” In The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media, 1–8. Amsterdam; Boston: Focal Press/Elsevier. http://carbonfarm.us/365/readings/BBCh1.pdf.
Block, Bruce. 2008. “Chapter 9: Story and Visual Structure.” In The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media, 221–252. Boston: Focal Press/Elsevier.

Week 9: Immersive Storytelling

Paterson, Eddie, Timothy Williams, and Will Cordner. 2020. “Interview with Brooke Maggs.” In Once Upon a Pixel: Storytelling and Worldbuilding in Video Games, 17–28. New York, NY: CRC Press.
Dooley, Kath. 2017. “Storytelling with Virtual Reality in 360-Degrees: A New Screen Grammar.” Studies in Australasian Cinema 11, no. 3: 161–171. https://doi.org/10.1080/17503175.2017.1387357.
Craig, Emory and Maya Georgieva. 2018. “VR and AR: The Art of Immersive Storytelling and Journalism.” Educause Review, February 8, 2018. https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2018/2/vr-and-ar-the-art-of-immersive-storytelling-and-journalism.
Kool, Hollis. 2016. “The Ethics of Immersive Journalism: A Rhetorical Analysis of News Storytelling with Virtual Reality Technology.” Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society 9, no. 3. https://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view/871.

Week 10: Graphic Stories, Storyboarding, and Production: Making Your Story

University of Houston, College of Education. n.d. “How To: Create Storyboards.” Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=23&cid=23&sublinkid=37.
UC Berkley, Advanced Media Institute. 2020. “Start-to-Finish Storyboarding.” https://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/start-to-finish-storyboarding.

Week 11: Postmodern Challenges to Traditional Forms of Storytelling

Smith, Hazel. 2005. “Postmodern F(r)ictions.” In The Writing Experiment: Strategies for Innovative Creative Writing, 133–155. Crows Nest, AU: Allen & Unwin.

NOTE: You can ignore the exercises described on pp. 133–134.
Allison, Jane. 2019. “Beyond the Narrative Arc.” The Paris Review, March 27, 2019. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/27/beyond-the-narrative-arc.
Qian, Jianan. 2018. “The Moon is Beautiful Tonight: On East Asian Narratives.” The Millions, April 17, 2018. https://themillions.com/2018/04/the-moon-is-beautiful-how-and-why-east-asian-stories-generate-plot-without-conflict.html.

Week 12: Cultural Appropriation

Leanne, Jeanine. 2016. “Other People’s Stories.” Overland 225 (Summer). https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-225/feature-jeanine-leane.
de Waal, Kit. 2018. “Don’t Dip Your Pen in Someone Else’s Blood: Writers and ‘The Other’.” The Irish Times, June 30, 2018. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/don-t-dip-your-pen-in-someone-else-s-blood-writers-and-the-other-1.3533819.
Shawl, Nisi. 2005. “Beautiful Strangers: Transracial Writing for the Sincere.” In Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, edited by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, 73–82. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press.
Shawl, Nisi. 2005. “Appropriate Cultural Appropriation.” In Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, edited by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, 83–96. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press.

Week 13: The Social Function of Stories—Part I: Education, Activism, and Information Literacy

Wu, Jing and Der-Thanq Victor Chen. 2020. “A Systematic Review of Educational Digital Storytelling." Computers & Education 147, no. 103786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2019.103786.
Rice, Carla, Susan D. Dion, Hannah Fowlie, and Ingrid Mündel. 2020. “Re/Turning the Gaze: Unsettling Settler Logics Through Multimedia Storytelling.” Feminist Media Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1707256.
Botsis, Taxiarchis, Jennifer E. Fairman, Meghan Bridgid Moran, and Valsamo Anagnostou. 2020. “Visual Storytelling Enhances Knowledge Dissemination in Biomedical Science.” Journal of Biomedical Informatics 107, no. 103458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2020.103458.

Week 14: The Social Function of Stories—Part II: Marketing, Healing, and Politics

Scolari, Carlos Alberto. 2009. “Transmedia Storytelling: Implicit Consumers, Narrative Worlds, and Branding in Contemporary Media Production.” International Journal of Communication 3: 586–606.
Adelson, Naomi and Michelle Olding. 2013. “Narrating Aboriginality On-Line: Digital Storytelling, Identity and Healing.” The Journal of Community Informatics 9, no.2. https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v9i2.3167.
Ewick, Patricia and Susan Silbey. 2003. “Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority.” American Journal of Sociology 108, no. 6: 1328–1372. https://doi.org/10.1086/378035.