Everyone tells stories. Whether we are telling a friend about what we saw on our morning commute or sharing an old family story that is passed down through the generations we all take part in storytelling. By definition storytelling is “the telling or writing of stories;” and the definition of a story is “a narrative, either […]
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Storytelling is often seen as being only sharing folktales and entertainment. This, however, is not true. Stories are important to understanding history. Oral histories are an important way of collecting research from people that do not have a written history. Whether it is Africa American slaves sharing their stories with lawyers, such as Nat Turner‘s confessions, or […]
Storytelling is a primary way that folklore is is passed from person to person. Whether it’s a family legend that a grandmother tells her grandkids or a myth shared at an event, such as a powwow, to share a culture stories are important to the folklife of all people. Stories teach lessons, share information, and […]
The haze: storytelling’s influence on early American newspapers
Posted by: kasibumgarner | October 21, 2014 | No Comment |Although the rise of print journalism helped to improve the accuracy of news being spread, it didn’t escape the influence of storytelling/word of mouth completely, especially about international affairs. Mitchell Stephens refers to this phenomenon in our text as “The Haze”, a factor that causes events out of the region’s range “to be seen in […]
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Tags: Comm 455, false reports, international news, kasibumgarner, napoleon, Storytelling, the haze, Velocity
Tags: Comm 455, false reports, international news, kasibumgarner, napoleon, Storytelling, the haze, Velocity
Storytelling: the shift from spoken word to paper
Posted by: kasibumgarner | September 23, 2014 | No Comment |To this day, storytelling via word of mouth is a prominent method of distributing information. The primary flaw in this method however, whether it’s a grandmother passing down family history or a recount of a recent event, is that it’s extremely difficult to keep facts straight when the same story is shared between multiple people. […]
Norse and Scandinavian sagas can be placed into one of several different categories. There were the king’s sagas, contemporary sagas, chivalric sagas, Icelander’s sagas, sagas of the Greenlanders, short tales of the Icelanders, and legendary sagas. Some of these classifications resemble modern categorizations of periodical literature. The king’s sagas are accounts of the lives of […]
“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” […]
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Tags: fear and loathing, hunter s. thompson, jeremy eley, Journalism, magazine, Storytelling, the rolling stone
Tags: fear and loathing, hunter s. thompson, jeremy eley, Journalism, magazine, Storytelling, the rolling stone
The importance of vocal reporting is replaced by pen and paper
Posted by: eleyism922 | September 25, 2012 | No Comment |Are you a story teller, or a story writer? While some would argue they possess both qualities, this is one instance in which we know the chicken(spoken word) came before the egg(written word). Stories, whether hard or soft, were first heard. They were heard, and then told, and eventually written. Today we use Greg’s Shorthand. Introduced […]
Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.
Storytelling AND Graphics: Glance toward the unknown
Posted by: aramage | October 18, 2011 | No Comment |We’ve been learning about spoken word giving way to the written word. This past weekend, I went to the National Museum of African Art. I saw this picture: I was totally confused. You may not be able to see it but the script making up the face on the left is illegible Arabic. It took […]
To me, storytelling isn’t just orally telling the story. In the age of Zuckerberg, journalists and others practice visual storytelling via applications like Storify. For those of you who need a little reminding of what a Storify looks like, check this one out:
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Tags: Herodotus, history of print journalism, inverted pyramid, Lexie Ramage, nutgraph, Storify, Storytelling, timeline
Tags: Herodotus, history of print journalism, inverted pyramid, Lexie Ramage, nutgraph, Storify, Storytelling, timeline
Imagine reading something like this in a newspaper today: “We learn from the Albany Daily Advertiser of yesterday from the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser of Saturday….” That quote, taken from the Dec. 2, 1841 issue of the Boston Evening Transcript (and quoted in Mitchell Stephens‘ “A History of News“) was standard fare for early newspapers before […]