On January 30 the Powerhouse Museum becomes the start point for a locative mobile story/game called China Heart. This exciting free project runs all through Chinese New Year celebrations until February 13. China Heart is being produced by dLux Media Arts, developed by The Project Factory, and the narrative has been written by Annette Shun-Wah [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Digital storytelling'
China Heart – mobile locative storytelling: interview with Tara Morelos, Annette Shun-Wah & Jennifer Wilson
January 14th, 2011 1 Comment
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Sharing with SepiaTown – historical images re-mapped
October 19th, 2010 3 Comments
Early in the year when I visited Josh Greenberg and the digital team at the New York Public Library, I was told about SepiaTown. One of quite a few ‘Then & Now’ web projects (see also History Pin), SepiaTown puts historic images back on the (Google) map, also using Google Street View to connect the [...]
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Exploring Sydney streets – a composite video experiment with the Commons
December 5th, 2008 Comments Off
As we’ve been getting a lot of feedback on these here’s another of Jean-Francois Lanzarone’s video montages composed from detail in our glass plate negatives uploaded to the Commons on Flickr. This is the first one he has finished made up of multiple source images. Again, this is a simple digital storytelling with consumer-grade video [...]
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Learning from journalists and the media sector
October 23rd, 2007 Comments Off
Over the past while I’ve been talking a lot about museums becoming media organisations on the web. This is occurring at the same time as the differences between museums, libraries, galleries and archives blurring. Like media, museums are coming to terms with the need to encourage active participation and co-creation between our visitors (cf. readers/viewers), [...]
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Prometeus – the Media Revolution
June 25th, 2007 Comments Off
Here’s another take on ‘the media revolution’. Prometeus reminds me of a more uptopian view of the fantastical EPIC2014‘s Googlezon dystopia of a few years ago. In Prometeus, Google buys Microsoft instead of Amazon while Amazon buys Yahoo. Possibly even more interesting than the future thinking ideas contained in these viral narrowcasts is their increasing [...]
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What museums might learn from how news organisations are trying to engage communities
March 26th, 2007 1 Comment
This week’s essential reading comes in the form of the Center for Citizen Media’s report titled Frontiers of Innovation in Community Engagement: News Organizations Forge New Relationships with Communities. The report is written for those who are yet to become interested in the new opportunities afforded by Web 2.0 and contains plenty of global case [...]
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Gordon Luk on avatars in games and social media sites / stickiness and museums
March 22nd, 2007 2 Comments
Gordon Luk has, post-SXsW posted some well illustrated examples of avatars and the types of available customisation that can be done in various MMORPGs and social media sites. Luk is looking at the differences between ‘explicitly controlled’ and ‘implicitly controlled’ customisations. The former being those that are created by the user/player (initial picture, autobiography) and [...]
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Sub groups of consumer co-created content
March 7th, 2007 Comments Off
From the marketing world comes this quite useful subcategorisation of ‘consumer generated content’. Indeed, seeing co-created content through the lens of marketing can itself be quite revealing. (summarised) Consumer-generated media (CGM): At its core, CGM represents first-person commentary posted or shared across a host of expression venues, including message boards, forums, rating and review sites, [...]
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