The best place by the fire was kept for... The Storyteller.
"Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow." ~ Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre by Bryan Alexander and Alan Levine
Like just about everything related to communication, storytelling has taken on a new look and sound in a Technology Infused Age. This article by Bryan Alexander and Alan Levine explores the changes that have ocurred in storytelling since digital networks and and social media invaded our world. As I read this I am wondering what we've gained and lost in this transition. From where I sit, the gains have brought a whole new league of storytellers to the campfire, storytellers who have expanded the notion of what storytelling is and its purpose in our world.
"When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire was kept for... The Storyteller." ~ The Storyteller (Jim Henson's 1988 Movie opening lines).
