Thank you for stopping by. This is the archived blog in support of The New Digital Storytelling.
For a couple of years I used this to share digital stories and to explore these new narrative forms. I’m no longer updating the blog, but you are welcome to peruse its contents. You can also purchase the book from Amazon or Praeger.
My main blog these days can be found here. Sometimes I share digital storytelling thoughts there. You can also find me on Twitter, where I do the same.
Seattle Noir is another Twitter-based storytelling project. Microstorytelling, really, as each bit of story consists of a single Tweet. Said Tweets combine noir fiction (plot and/or style) with life in Seattle, flagged by the hashtag #SeattleNoir.
For example,
Or:
Twitter continues to be a lively ground for new digital storytelling. Soon we won’t call this “new” any more.
Noir has been a digital storytelling theme for a while. Small Town Noir did a fine job of combining local archival research with blogging. Alan Levine (of course) offers a neatly unsettling noir through Cowbird.
(thanks to Steven Kaye)
Transom has a nice piece explaining Cowbird.
It’s a good introduction. The article also gives us a good sense of how far Cowbird has come. Now it has a library. Now it’s a multimedia storytelling first-step tool.
“First Draft of the Revolution” is a Flash-based epistolary story. The reader/player helps letter-writers revise drafts. Each page develops the story:
Two Middlebury College students used digital storytelling tools to explore central Vermont. Here’s a sample, their discussion with a dairy farmer.
This was one project from Peter Lourie‘s series of adventure writing classes.
