The Work of Storytelling Event
- Date:
- 29 - 30 May 2018
- Venue:
- Winchester School of Art
For more information regarding this event, please email Megen De Bruin-Mole at m.j.de-bruin-mole@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Hosted by the Transforming Creativity Research Group, this symposium explores the working practices and dynamics that shape contemporary storytelling. In an age when lives are increasingly branded, gamified, and narrativized, how do our stories get created and communicated? What are the challenges of meaning-making across media? Focusing on digital media transformations, this symposium encourages discussions that interrogate the “work” (rather than the “art”) of storytelling by investigating themes including:
- Entertainment industries
- Representational politics
- Production contexts
- Collaborative authorship
- Branding and marketing
- Audiences and user generated content
We warmly welcome expressions of interest from WSA staff and PhD students, with a view to current and future collaboration on this topic. If you would like to participate, please send an e-mail to m.j.de-bruin-mole@soton.ac.uk by 20 April 2018 with an indication of how your research speaks to the “work” of storytelling, including a brief title and a few sentences describing your topic. Depending on the range and scope of interest, symposium presentations may take the form of 20-minute presentations, roundtable discussions, workshops, or performances.
A full programme will be available in May.