ABSTRACT

What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies. This book offers dynamic insights about the new nature of narrative in the age of mobile media, studying digital stories that are site-specific, context-aware, and involve the reader in fascinating ways. Addressing important topics for scholars, students, and designers alike, this collection investigates the crucial questions for this emerging area of storytelling and electronic literature. Topics covered include the histories of site-specific narratives, issues in design and practice, space and mapping, mobile games, narrative interfaces, and the interplay between memory, history, and community.

part I|49 pages

Narrative and Site-Specific Authorship

chapter 2|17 pages

The Interrelationships of Mobile Storytelling

Merging the Physical and the Digital at a National Historic Site

part II|59 pages

Design and Practice

chapter 6|16 pages

Dancing with Twitter

Mobile Narratives Become Physical Scores

chapter 7|15 pages

Walking-Talking

Soundscapes, Flâneurs, and the Creation of Mobile Media Narratives

part III|48 pages

Space and Mapping

chapter 8|15 pages

Locative Media in the City

Drawing Maps and Telling Stories

chapter 9|15 pages

Paths of Movement

Negotiating Spatial Narratives through GPS Tracking

chapter 10|16 pages

On Common Ground

Here as There

part IV|61 pages

Mobile Games

chapter 11|14 pages

The Geocacher as Placemaker

Remapping Reality through Location-Based Mobile Gameplay

chapter 12|17 pages

Proximity and Alienation

Narratives of City, Self, and Other in the Locative Games of Blast Theory

chapter 13|13 pages

Playing Stories on the Worldboard

How Game-Based Storytelling Changes in the World of Mobile Connectivity

chapter 14|15 pages

"I Heard It Faintly Whispering"

Mobile Technology and Nonlocative Transmedia Practices

part V|40 pages

Narrative Interfaces

chapter 16|11 pages

Stories of the Mobile

Women, Micro-Narratives, and Mobile Novels in Japan

chapter 17|12 pages

Telling Their Stories Through IPAD Art

Narratives of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

part VI|43 pages

Memory, History, and Community

chapter 18|13 pages

Mobile Media After 9/11

The September 11 Memorial & Museum App

chapter 19|14 pages

Enhancing Museum Narratives

Tales of Things and UCL's Grant Museum

chapter 20|14 pages

Mobilizing Cities

Alternative Community Storytelling