Social Media Storytelling

Using social media platforms like Twitter for storytelling is just the latest in a proud history of artists subverting non-fiction platforms to narrative ends. From Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, to found-footage horror films, alternate reality games, and the modern crop of vlog-style transmedia web series, such pioneers have been providing audiences with entirely original narrative experiences. The discussion will include what makes this type of storytelling unique as a narrative form, and the cognitive narratological underpinnings of why it works the way it does.

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