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Grand places are memorable. But equally memorable are places that appear ordinary but are attached to our personal, grand experiences. They are part of a larger narrative, and what we will explore this week. But first, let’s deal with… Do you have Audio Anguish? Last week we introduced activities where we had to record, share, and edit audio. Are you free from anguish? What problems, challenges did you have? We will give our Kean students a chance to express (yell?) […]

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We understand what writing is with a pen, with a keyboard, but what is writing when we do it with sound? What can we convey about ideas, story, who we are only in sound? and what can those sounds inspire us to write in response?

Those are but some of …

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What comes after last week’s theme of chaos? How about a pause?

re·pose rəˈpōz/ noun — a state of rest, sleep, or tranquility.
“in repose her face looked relaxed” synonyms: rest, relaxation, inactivity;

This week in Networked Narratives is for you to choose your own path. We have one …

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Are you feeling in control of your Networked Narratives experience, lost in the chaos, or perhaps sometimes both?

This week we’ll explore this spectrum and our place on it, both in writing and in some media creation.

The Network Effect

Network Effect is an immersive and overwhelming information experience meant …

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Thanks to Christina Cantrill and the National Writing Project for inviting us to be guests this past Thursday on their Blog Talk Radio show.

Mia Zamora, Alan Levine, Mark Corbett Wilson, and Geoff Gevalt had the opportunity to share Networked Narratives with our NWP friends.

Tune in now!

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Those who grew up with the internet, an infinite virtual store of every kind of music and podcast, may not appreciate the joy of waiting until nightfall to twist the dial of a transistor radio to catch a radio show from a station a thousand miles away.

Maybe it was …

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Traditional analyses of story structure focused on a story having an arc, a trajectory that in Hollywood is a formula (the 3 act structure). But as we saw last week with bots and generative poetry, and this week with netprov, the shape of networked narratives may be more …

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