Digital Storytelling vs. Oral Storytelling: An Analysis of the Art of Telling Stories Now and Then

The art of storytelling

New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age

Introduction In recent years developments in digital technology have played a signii-cant role in the transformation of narrative theory and practice. Stories that exploit the capacity of digital media (that is, those that necessitate the computer for their production and display) have provided vital new territory against which the tools of narrative analysis could be tested and reened. As such...

Storytelling: From Cave Art to Digital Media

O nce upon a time, about 6,000 years ago, early tribesmen drove a herd of gazelles into a dead-end canyon in Syria and slaughtered them. All that remained for modern anthropologists were bones from the animals’ lower limbs.1 A copious amount of meat must have been harvested and rapidly consumed—perhaps as part of a religious ceremony with numerous participants—given that era’s lack of refrigera...

Simulating the Storytelling Qualities of Life: Telling Stories with the Sims

The stories vs. games debate has been prominent during the early years of game studies, and few other perspectives have been introduced to the discussion. In the paper, Game Researcher and Concept Designer Satu Heliö from Sulake Corporation introduces new concepts with which to approach the supposed divide. She argues that concepts such as narrative mindset and social schema provide better mean...

Editorial: mediatized stories: mediation perspectives on digital storytelling

There is an explosion of digital means by which people can shape and share stories about themselves. New media and new conditions of telling ‘my’ or ‘our’ story are open to more individuals and groups in society.This special section of New Media & Society relates to such self-representational uses of the new means. Digital stories made by amateurs may encourage social participation in those con...