The Cult of Me

How Social Technologies Will Save the Story

IDMAA: The Distributed Story Stream

More Hallmark News

We’ll be announcing some new work on the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition project (even though the house is built).
Here’s a neat little blurb about what we did.

Extreme Makeover

It’s been an interesting few weeks. A builder involved with ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition got in touch with Ball State and before I knew it: 30 students were running a social media team for the 7-day event.
Here is the press release from Ball State about this team. Here is the blog for the event [...]

Video: Storytelling + the AEJMC

I’m about to start a project with the AEJMC in a few weeks. Here’s my introduction.

Storytelling: Product Versus Process

During a discussion in my Social Media class at Northern Kentucky University, we veered onto a topic that is helpful in framing the idea of The Cult of Me: the difference between “product” and “process” storytellers.
The idea of the story as either a product or a process, I think, is instructive because it depending upon [...]

Clay Shirky: How Social Media Can Make History

This is a talk given by Clay Shirky, one of the leading voices discussion social media and storytelling.

Chapter 8: Catching Content

The idea of a distributed story is, like the product itself, emerging in various forms across the Web. There’s no one place — nor can there be one place — that encapsulates the idea. Instead it will manifest in many forms; however, there are some basic principles that are necessary for this type of emergent [...]

Chapter 7: The Cult of Me

I’m tinkering with the chapter drafts right now. These are incomplete as the interviews and statistics that back up these arguments will come at the end. I want to make sure the narrative makes sense. This chapter is the first chapter of Part III, where I begin to detail exactly how this emerging Web-native story [...]

What’s in a Story (A Witty Response)

story
noun (pl. stories) 1 an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment. 2 an account of past events, experiences, etc. 3 an item of news. 4 a storyline. 5 informal a lie.
source Compact Oxford English Dictionary
My writing partner John asked me a question yesterday, one we started discussing in Berlin last [...]

The Cult of Me: An Introduction to the Term

I’ve been sifting through the first few chapters of The Cult of Me, trying to lay the groundwork in the beginning of the book for the argument that comes later. I realized something in this process: I’ve talked about The Cult of Me without ever defining it. Really.
There are hints about it, but nothing concrete. [...]

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