Brooks, Strohecker, Friedlander: TOGI
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Labels: Brooks, metalinear narrative, narrative theory
Lab notes on my research project in multi-threaded storytelling for journalism.
A tool for interactive non-fiction storytelling using filters:
Labels: Brooks, metalinear narrative, narrative theory
The term metalinear narrative is used here to define a method for creating and developing multiple linear narratives from a highly structured collection of small narrative pieces, thus creating a new story form. These narrative pieces on their own do not constitute a single narrative or plotline, such as a chronological spine, but instead act as building blocks for constructing many different narratives. This new type of story defines a form which transcends linear in the sense that it is a form from which many linear stories can be made, therefore metalinear...
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