Abstract
The current widespread use of digital videos, pictures, audio and text, and their distribution across social media leads to the rise of new consumption behaviours and the spread of new interactive narrative forms. These issues are considered with the analysis of the results of the workshop “Micro Narratives for Community Engagement”, which is part of an ongoing research and educational programme about social media narratives and transmedia storytelling for community engagement. The aim of the workshop was to examine the structure of social media feeds as new ways of organising content based on storytelling and sense-making.
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We refer to the term “listening” as the action of building relations with the community: in this case, the audiovisual language represents a tool for collecting stories from users and shaping their expectations [15].
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The idea of collecting stories from fragments of the mainstream and weaving them together in a narration was one of the main topics discussed since 2013 within the DESIS Philosophy Talks #Storytelling and Design for Social Innovation (www.desis-philosophytalks.org; [4]) looking at the specific contribution of the German philosopher Hannah Arendt.
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Footage films have been based on these kinds of approaches, even before the opportunities introduced by digital technologies. See for example the film by Alberto Grifi and Gianfranco Baruchello “Verifica incerta” (“Disperse Exclamatory Phase”, 35’, color, 35 mm, Italy, 1965).
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Piredda, F., Ciancia, M., Venditti, S. (2015). Social Media Fiction. In: Schoenau-Fog, H., Bruni, L., Louchart, S., Baceviciute, S. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9445. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_29
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