Documenting Digital Dialogues

2. "As both fictional and non-fictional accounts, expressed through
words, images, sounds and gestures, stories allow us to reflect on
the way we live, and provide a means of structuring and
expressing our experiences and understanding of the world
around us. "
Introduction

3. Documentaries are a type of storytelling. However, when it
reaches to audience it turns into a ‘fixed and linear form’ in
contrast to dynamic and evolving nature of making it.
Audience participation is important for co-construction of
documentaries to tell their own story.
" In cases where the documentary is being created for an
audience that is closely involved in the realworld events being
portrayed, we believe that digital tools can be used to provide an
even greater level of engagement in the storytelling process. "
Introduction

4. " Our goal for the storytelling workshop was to create a collective
record of the symposium that would allow participants to reflect
on their experience. Using a new set of digital tools – a tangible
storytelling system, an online video weblog, and a content
annotation tool – we provided symposium participants with the
means of engaging in a collaborative storytelling process both
during and after the event. "
Goal

5. Digital tools used that enables temporally and spatially
structured approaches.
" Aristotle defined the art of storytelling as being that which
gives us a shareable world. "
" De Certeau claims that "space is a practiced place", thereby
using narrative to distinguish between the concepts of place and
space. While a map divides place, a story traverses space. In
other words, people can fulfill the potential of a landscape by
giving it personal meaning. "
Context

6. Digital tools used that enables temporally and spatially
structured approaches.
" Aristotle defined the art of storytelling as being that which
gives us a shareable world. "
" De Certeau claims that "space is a practiced place", thereby
using narrative to distinguish between the concepts of place and
space. While a map divides place, a story traverses space. In
other words, people can fulfill the potential of a landscape by
giving it personal meaning. "
Context

7. • Online publishing and collaboration
• Online video collaboration
• Traditional spatial narratives
• Digital spatial narratives
Related Work

8. "How to collectively document an event in space and time with a
relatively large group of story creators. "
Story could grow in 3 ways:
• Time
• Space
• Character viewpoint
The Digital Dialogues Storytelling Workshop

9. The Digital Dialogues Storytelling Workshop
Video Weblog

10. The Digital Dialogues Storytelling Workshop
Tangible Viewpoints

11. Evaluation
"The video clips presented an opportunity for many of the
craftspeople at the symposium to watch themselves actively
engaged in their craft for the first time, and to reflect on their
skills, techniques and work methods.
The movement between creation and engagement was a cyclical
process, with each part informing the evolution and meaning of
the other.
Combining metaphors of time and space to explore story
constructions provides a flexible framework for documenting the
multiple locations, activities and points of view of a large-scale
event. "

12. Discussion
What are the other dimensions that we can explore apart from
time, space and character viewpoints in domestic environment
for storytelling?
What are the other means for creating a narrative with
collaborative audience other than digital media?

13. References
Kelliher, A., Mazalek, A., & Davenport, G. (2003, March). Documenting Digital Dialogues: Engaging Audience in the
Construction of a Collective Documentary Across Time and Space. In Proceedings of TIDSE (pp. 248-259).
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14. Thank you for your time.