Challenging the Master Narrative on Large-Scale Social Estates: Exploring Counterstories Through Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling with dinah: dynamic, interactive, narrative authoring heuristic

We present a novel method for defining and assembling interactive narrative while operating under an optimized constraint-based system. DINAH is a dynamic, interactive, narrative authoring heuristic that constructs textual stories from a database of short story components. Similar to video game techniques that blend short motion capture segments to construct interactive graphical characters, DI...

Narrative Gerontology and Digital Storytelling: What Benefits for Elders?

Between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years will double from about 11% to 22% [1]. In Canada, for the first time in 2015, the number of people aged 65 and over has exceeded that of children aged 0 to 14 years [2]. When we think of the elderly, we inevitably associate it with agerelated health problems. Approximately 75 to 80% of Canadian seniors report having a...

Designing Urban Media Storytelling through Greimas’ Narrative Model

This article attempts to establish an urban media storytelling model based on Greimas’ narrative model. Greimas’ narrative model is distinguished into Narrative Schema model and Actantial model. Of course, other contents that reproduced through urban media can also establish storytelling strategies using these. Moreover, it can also be utilized in establishing a storytelling that applies to the...

NARRATIVE STORYTELLING IN VR THROUGH GAMING by Brycon

Beyond the School's Boundaries: PoliCultura, a Large-Scale Digital Storytelling Initiative

Technologies are changing the way we teach and learn in many respects. A relevant and not yet fully explored aspect is that they can support, even entice, students and teachers to go beyond the school boundaries, in spatial and temporal terms. Teachers and learners can keep in touch and work together, when they are not at school; they can access “the world” via Internet; peer to peer remote coo...