Digital Storytelling and New MediaStory Maps for Technical, Scientific, and Business Communication

Presentation by: Dr. Susan RauchMarch 3, 2017

What is…Digital StorytellingUsing digital media or tools to tell a story or narrative.

New MediaHighly interactive digital technology e.g. blogs, websites, social media, mobile apps

Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) TheoryConnects artistic vision and storytelling with digital technology from artifact to categorizations. Applies spatial and comparative mappings (Helmut Koenitz).

Story maps simplify the storytelling process

Uses principles of information and multimodal design to make complex information more usable, easy to understand.

Why Story Maps?

Interactive Visual Tools for project management, analysis, decision support, modeling, situational awareness, and communication.

Combines authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content to tell a story.

Engages readers to participate in the story.

Not just for technical and scientific communication.

What are Story Maps?

mHealth/eHealth

Engineering FinanceEnvironmental Community

Global Sustainability

Create reports, training materials, presentations, instructional guides, journey maps, literary and historical narratives.

Historical Archive

Where are Story Maps Used?

Journey and User Maps

OTHER TYPES OF STORY MAPS

Literary Journey: Interactive GIS/Timeline

Graphical representations of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line.

Literature - interactive strategy for identifying story schema and grammar. (Dimino et al. 1990; Howard 1989)

Arranges user stories to help understand functionality and accessibility.

02 Digital Story Maps | ENVIRONMENTAL

How Are Story Maps Created?

Digital tools used for composing and design

Edit Unnecessary

Detail

Story MapsCreative Process

Strive for clarity

Consider UX

AccessibleLanguage

Avoid Jargon

Excess hyperlinks that detract

from navigation

Strive for Simplicity

Legends Pop-ups,SymbolsSemiotics

Connect to Audience

01 Information Design Sources: Duarte Slidedocs

Tell a Visual Story

INFORMATION DESIGNMake complex, densely written information more interesting

Use data visualizations, map plotting, “call outs,” legends, and pop-ups.

HOW INFORMATION DESIGN IS EFFECTIVE IN STORY MAPPING

• Chunking the text by topic• Displaying it in a visually interesting way• Annotate maps with call outs, pop-ups, and data visualizations

REVISION ANALYSIS: How to apply story board and information design concepts

BEFORE AFTER

APPLYING GOOD INFORMATION DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Types of Student Projects and Learning Outcomes for Digital Storytelling• Community Engagement/Service Learning: Community

and/or Cultural Narratives• Multimodal Scientific and Technical Writing: Reports and

Presentations• Literary Journey Mapping: Non-fiction literary works.

Timeline of places and events.• Instructional or Procedural Materials: Digital composing

and information design• History: Multimedia archive, oral history, journey timeline

of people, places, events, and times

How will you tell “your” story?

QUESTIONS?

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