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THEMATIC ONE
broadcast convergence: new forms of storytelling
New forms of narrative and its relationship to audience
The growth of independent individual personal memories and community stories potentially foreshadows an inclusion of the individual or community in global communication, which can be seen as a response to the pent up frustration of one-way media discourse. How does multi channel distribution enhance storytelling and how will broadcasters change their relationship to audience?
Session Two: Saturday 4 February, 11.15am
Playable fictions: interactivity & storytelling
Convergence enables new forms of storytelling. New technologies and new story practices can potentially provide an opportunity for multiple voices to co-exist. Interactive storytelling intimately explores the relationship between action and consequence for an audience that is simultaneously taking on the role of storyteller.
Session Three: Saturday 4 February, 2pm
How public broadcasting serves the public interest in the digital age
Digital Storytelling is a great way of developing local content for both television broadcast and web strategies, while also introducing creative ICT skills to the community. With the globalised nature of today's markets it is tempting for broadcasters to buy more and make fewer programmes. In this environment, a broadcaster's ability to invest in indigenous and community programming might enable it to differentiate itself from homogenous mono-cultural representation.
Session Five: Sunday 5 February, 9am
Digital democracy: blogging, podcasting and more
Blogging, podcasting and other convergent technologies provide media alternatives that allow for ongoing, unstructured first person narratives. The journals of individuals are now a common way to intimately experience world events, with events occurring from even remote parts of the world able to be shared instantly and in a format that is unmediated. Games too, disseminated virally via the internet, are a powerful new medium for communicating ideology.
Session Six: Sunday 5 February, 11.15am
Workshop: Software as a story generator
Session Seven: Sunday 5 February, 2pm
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