Media Ecology and Storytelling
The one point we are trying to make here is the rationale behind changing the term ‘storytelling’ into a single verb: ‘storying‘. While the author starts out having us believe that story TELLING is exactly that…’telling’ (or writing ) a story. As media has evolved, other forms also have their own ‘language’. This was the brilliance of Marshall McLuhan and why he was so misunderstood and controversial in hi time. No one knew at that time how media and technology would evolve. Take from this reading and extrapolate into the 21st century and tell me how you can correlate what the author is saying and bring it to new media/technology.
link to pdf: https://emeclasses.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/notes_on_narrative_and_media_ecology.pdf
Do This!
Review the Premise for this white paper and post your response to the questions. Again, you are being asked to take a stand on this particular issue:
- Prepare a one page ‘white paper’ in which you state your ideas on story and media. This time it is about media, story and language. Does Strate seem to imply that “language” must be in text format or is there room in his arguments for other types of media? On other words do other media have their own ‘language”?
- Include you rationale as to the source of your ideas. You may pull from the Media Ecology class, if you have taken it. Regardless, be sure to cite your sources using APA format.
- State how you might rephrase the question to reflect your thoughts above
- Include this as a separate section of your single, final reflection for this course, adding it to the first discussion starter on story and cognition and learning and your final reflection. This final paper will have three distinct parts.
- Submit your final paper in the single drop box set up in Canvas for these three assignments.