storytelling

I started this paper Interested in the role of technology in dispersing narratives, the stories we tell and with questions about the rise I noticed in populist narratives of individuals "speaking their truths" etc at a time when Narratives in an academic sense have been destroyed. Whether there is a correlation between technology making story-preservation *available* and the interest in people's *own* stories as some kind of refuge or response to the killing off of grand narratives is quite a question. I was also thinking colloquially about wanting stories to share with my mom that wouldn’t have four-syllable words in them, stories that would bring my friends a boost when they were down and stories that would motivate me to move forward.

This site is the outcome of a final project in a 2011 Interactive Technology & Pedagogy Class at NYC's CUNY Graduate Center, a progressive digital humanities course.

After looking at many storytelling websites, I decided to share the resources I'd amassed, and develop a toolkit that artists, oral historians, and cultural documentarians could use. Why? Because after crystallizing my vague sense that "stories are important" in the glass that holds my social-change activist spirit, and placing it under the burner of a final paper, the resulting alchemical mix was too exciting to keep to myself. May all your stories be lexical, hypertextual, and rhetorical. Enjoy.