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Digital Storytelling: Asynchronous Journeys

January 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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I was doing some research for an online course I’m teaching at Fielding Graduate University in Digital Narrative and Emerging Technologies, and came across this absolutely brilliant video called “The Bus” by photographer Daniel Meadows. It is beautifully produced, but has an incredible tenderness and humanity. Meadows teaches and researches Digital Storytelling in the U.K. Here is how he describes digital storytelling:

Digital Stories are short, personal, multimedia tales. Written with feeling and in the first person there’s a strictness to their construction: 250 words, a dozen or so pictures, and two minutes is about the right length.
Considered narratives which subject themselves to strictures of form tend to elegance. Digital Stories — when properly done — can be tight as sonnets: multimedia sonnets from the people.

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About Dr. Pamela Rutledge

Pamela Rutledge is the Director of the Media Psychology Research Center. Her area of expertise is positive and cognitive psychology applied to emerging technologies and the use and impact of social media and transmedia storytelling for branding, advocacy, and messaging. She is Adjunct Faculty in the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University and an instructor of Media Psychology, Social Media and Transmedia Storytelling at UCLA Extension and UC Irvine Extension. Pam is also on the advisory board for UC Irvine Extension Business School's certificate program in Internet and Social Media Marketing. Through A Think Lab, Pam develops workshops and presentations to teach Transmedia Storytelling for Organizations, Advocacy, and Branding.

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