Storytelling, in its various forms, has often been described as a practice with great emancipatory potential. In turn, Indigenous knowledge shows great promise in guiding a participatory action research (PAR) methodology. Yet these two approaches are rarely discussed in relation to one another, nor, has much been written in terms of how these two approaches may work synergistically toward a dec...

Social media such as Twitter have ushered in alternative modalities to propagate news and developments rapidly. Just as traditional IR and web research matured to modeling storylines from search results and linking documents into stories, we are now at a point to study how stories organize and evolve in mediums such as Twitter. While there has been a plethora of research for mining and connecti...

The mobile internet expands the immersive potential of storytelling by introducing electronic games powered by portable, location-aware interfaces. Mobile gaming has become the latest iteration in a decades-long evolution of electronic games that seek to empower the player not just as an avatar in a gameworld but also as a co-author of that gameworld, alongside the game’s original designers. Lo...

Nowadays people got used to short text answers, likes and shares. Anyone can feel it by entering popular forums or social networks. Modern platforms such as Twitter or Facebook contribute to this situation with their symbols per message limitations. The quality of content produced in such conditions is not high. According to Knight and Burn (2005): “The rapid growth of the Internet and the lack...

This article argues that the role of storytelling in planning needs to be rethought learning from decolonial turn social sciences. I ask how decolonise theory and practice. The aim is explore key notions Latin American thinking, such as pluriverse, epistemological disobedience, border thinking sentipensar, can help us reframe planning. reframing contribute finding different avenues build ontolo...

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of a storytelling approach in Chinese adult e-learners’ vocabulary learning. Two classes of 60 students participated in the experiment, with 30 in the experimental group and 30 in the control group. The storytelling approach and the rote memorization approach were employed by the two groups respectively in one teaching session of 30 minutes. Two ...

Most storytelling systems to date rely on manually coded knowledge, the cost of which usually restricts such systems to operate within a few domains where knowledge has been engineered. Open Story Generation systems are capable of learning knowledge necessary for telling stories in a given domain. In this paper, we describe a technique that generates and communicates stories in language with di...