storytelling

Since the early 1980s, storytelling has evolved far beyond its ancient roots as an oral-performance tradition. Storytelling is considered the foundation of emerging new media formats, such as blogging, gaming, and social media. Storytelling in established media formats, such as film, music, journalism, and comic books, is undergoing new scrutiny and research. Business narrative is an emerging tool for marketing, persuasion, trust-building, and sparking change. Scholars and practitioners are studying stories in organizations to learn more about organizational life and behavior. Educators are embracing digital storytelling for learning.

As social media use becomes more widespread (a 2009 Pew Internet Project Report noted that the proportion of adults who have a profile on a social network site had more than quadrupled since 2005 to 35 percent), storytelling has become a significant identity-construction tool in social media venues. So important has storytelling become to online life that Alan Levine and Bryan Alexander coined the term “Storytelling 2.0” to refer to the role of story in the interactive and collaborative Web.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “storytelling”

• in Entertainment
  The Impact of 9/11 on the Convergence of Technology & Entertainment
  Storytellers tell the tales of 9/11 using text messages to satellite surveillance.
  by JerryFlattum / on Sep 12, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Content Marketing World: Regina Brett God's Storyteller
  Tips From A Master Storyteller For Business, Not-For-Profit and Life
  by ScentTrail / on Sep 7, 2011
• in Entertainment
  Scholastic Storybook Treasures Presents The North Star…and More Stories about Following Your Dreams
  Ask yourself where it is you want to go…
  by missbobetier / on May 23, 2011

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