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GPS Tech to Tell a Story I’ve always been interested in the storytelling possibilities of GPS. Partially inspired by this story from the New Yorker, in which a man tracks down a runaway iPad via GPS and a friendly cabbie is fascinating to me. I love the idea of a digital/real world scavenger hunt, in which the user has to piece together a mystery narrative, based on clues from locations they find by GPS tracking the protagonist.

GPS Tech to Tell a Story

I’ve always been interested in the storytelling possibilities of GPS. Partially inspired by this story from the New Yorker, in which a man tracks down a runaway iPad via GPS and a friendly cabbie is fascinating to me. I love the idea of a digital/real world scavenger hunt, in which the user has to piece together a mystery narrative, based on clues from locations they find by GPS tracking the protagonist.

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Welcome to an experiment in participatory storytelling. As I gear up for a course I'll be teaching at Columbia University, I've decided to open my teaching process. I've established this tumblr and will soon be joined by the class for what I hope will become an ongoing collection of thoughts, projects, tech and ideas as they pertain to storytelling in the 21st Century.

I'm hard at work on a trilogy of participatory storytelling projects with the first one entitled, Robot Heart Stories launching this fall. I wish to explore the realities of the connected world we live in and what that means for storytelling. I'm especially interested in the changing role of authorship and its impact on the birth of a collective narrative. In this spirit I'm bringing the class in to this tumblr to share all things story.

Finally this tumblr will also tie into a book I've been working on entitled Building Storyworlds: the art, craft & biz of storytelling in 21C. The book is the basis of the course at Columbia and is an experiment in scarcity vs. digital abundance.


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