| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 161 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
International series on computer entertainment and media technology,
2364-947X
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International series on computer entertainment and media technology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book includes a short history of interactive narrative and an account of a small group collaboratively authored social media narrative: Romeo and Juliet on Facebook: After Love Comes Destruction. At the forefront of narrative innovation are social media channels - speculative spaces for creating and experiencing stories that are interactive and collaborative. Media, however, is only the access point to the expressiveness of narrative content. Wikis, messaging, mash-ups, and social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others) are on a trajectory of participatory story creation that goes back many centuries. These forms offer authors ways to create narrative meaning that reflects our current media culture, as the harlequinade reflected the culture of the 18th century, and as the volvelle reflected that of the 13th century. Interactivity, Collaboration, and Authoring in Social Media first prospects the last millennium for antecedents of today's authoring practices. It does so with a view to considering how today's digital manifestations are a continuation, perhaps a reiteration, perhaps a novel pioneering, of humans' abiding interest in interactive narrative. The book then takes the reader inside the process of creating a collaborative, interactive narrative in today's social media through an authoring experience undertaken by a group of graduate students. The engaging mix of blogs, emails, personal diaries, and fabricated documents used to create the narrative demonstrates that a social media environment can facilitate a meaningful and productive collaborative authorial experience and result in an abundance of networked, personally expressive, and visually and textually referential content. The resulting narrative, After Love Comes Destruction, based in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, shows how a generative narrative space evolved around the students' use of social media in ways they had not previously considered both for authoring and for delivery of their final narrative artifact. About the Author: Krystina Madej is Visiting Professor at the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and at the Center for Digital Media in Vancouver, Canada. She is co-author of Disney Stories: Getting to Digital with Newton Lee (Springer 2012). |
| Contents |
Dedication; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures ; Part I: Interactive Narrative: Collaborative Culture; Chapter 1: Introduction; Innovation and Change; Defining the Terms; Material Culture; Content, Form, and Medium; Dialogism; Agency; Collaboration; Chapter 2: Print Narrative, Interactivity, and Collaboration; Narrative and Knowledge; The First Computers; Tangible Narrative; Emerging Story; Production Teams; Choose Your Own Adventure; Chapter 3: Narrative as Material Practice: A Digital Domain; Hypertext: Connecting Information; Labyrinth; Invisible Seattle. |
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Hypertext Stories Hypermedia; Text Adventure Antecedents: Eliza and SHRDLU; Adventure; Zork; Community of Users [Equals] Social Networks; Chapter 4: Storytelling on the Web: Collaborative Authoring and Social Media; An Interactive, Collaborative Environment; Early Online Authoring; Social Media on the WWW; Blogs; Blogs as Narrative; Twitter; Part II: Interactive Narrative: Collaborative Practice; Chapter 5: Romeo and Juliet on Facebook: After Love Comes Destruction; The Future of the Book/the Book of the Future; Adapting Narrative Collaboratively; Center for Digital Media. |
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Stage 1 Project PreplanningIntroducing the Concept; Choosing a Project; Discussing Theme and Media; Stage 2 Scaffolding a Collaborative Environment; Collaborative Spaces: From Face-to-Face to Online and Back Again; A Disciplined Framework; Stage 3 Building the World; Characters and Their Online Life; Character Development; Connecting Characters; Stage 4 Revealing the Conspiracy; WikiLeaks Metaphor; The Gumshoe Wraps Up; Ladies and Gentleman: After Love Comes Destruction; Afterstory; Chapter 6: Collaborative Authoring in a Social Media World; Summary; Student Perspective; Reiteration. |
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Access to SitesChapter 7: The Story Backgrounds; Twitterdammerung: The Twitter Opera, Prologue; After Love Comes Destruction Theme and Media: Student Suggestions; Theme Descriptions; Ben; Piper; Sarah; Nathan; Alexa; Carson; Audit Student; Audit student; Social Media Descriptions; Ben; Piper; Sarah; Alexa; Carson; Nathan (From Theme's Response); Audit Student; Audit Student; Facebook Discussion: Preliminary Approach to Storyline and Character; Meeting Summary: Developing Storyline; Timeline; Photo Credits ; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
User-generated content.
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User-generated content. |
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Social media.
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Social media. |
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Graphical & digital media applications. |
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User interface design & usability. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Social media. |
| Other Form: |
Printed edition: 9783319259505 |
| ISBN |
9783319259529 (electronic book) |
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3319259520 (electronic book) |
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3319259504 (print) |
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9783319259505 (print) |
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9783319259505 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-319-25952-9 |
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