Social Storytelling

No one person owns a story(Except J.K. Rowling)

Stories are chronological, geographical, thematic, and reliant on characters.

Social media is chronological, geographical, and thematic information created by characters.

Elements of a Story

Thus, social media is a story (according to standardized test logic).

Eliminating Single Source Reporters

Currently, media stories emanate from a central point. This point is typically a major media outlet whether a blog or traditional news source.

Eliminating Single Source Reporters

Local & Regional News Outlets

Echo-chamber blogs

In a story originating from Social Media, the content meshes from many points to create a central story. One story, many voices.

Eliminating Single Source Reporters

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Missing Elements from Social Media

Missing Elements from Social Media

What social media is missing?

• Objectivity. A number of tweets criticize the coverage of Edwards affair

• Redundancy filter. The average user needs concise stories.

What is single-source media missing?

• Distribution. Social media outlets spread and create simultaneously.

• Immediacy. Multiple voices are collected quicker to create a richer story.

Rich Media Slide Shows

Capzles allows users to display image and video in a timeline format.

Rich Media Aggregators

Specific Events are expanded by multiple users in wiki fashion with rich media.

• Photos

• Timelines

• Geotagging

• Videos

• Comments

• Blogs

Rich Media Aggregators

Friendfeed Advanced Search provides a glimpse of social story telling. The addition of a redundancy filter and an altered presentation option would provide more of a traditional story experience.

Redundancy and authority could be partially improved through geolocation.

Rich Media Compiler

Rich Media Compiler

Friendfeed type stream is pulled is intuitively embedded onto map, allowing users to view local perspective of the same interest.

Semantic processing to dissect the various integers of a story. For example, the surge in information surrounding “Russian Invasion” would include tweets on Georgia, political reasons, U.S. response, connection to Olmypic start, etc.

Threaded conversations would function as the meat of the story, providing a dialogue surrounding the event.