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What is Storytelling

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
A method of communicating and sharing ideas, experiences and knowledge in a specific context.
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From Stories to Histories in Making Sense of IS Failure
Darren Dalcher (Hertfordshire Business School, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch706
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Transmedia Storytelling Edutainment and the New Testament Lesson
The process of using fact and narrative to communicate something to your audience. Some stories are factual, and some are embellished or improvised in order to better explain the core message.
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Digital Storytelling and Public Relations: An Analysis Through Case Studies
Storytelling is a communication tool that creates meanings and emotions on audience. It is a tool to create and maintain bonds for humans as well as organizations.
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Legitimation by Digital Discourses: The Case of the Indigenous Protest in Ecuador, October 2019
It is the art of telling stories using techniques inspired by writers and screenwriters to convey a message in an unforgettable way. In politics, it is used to achieve legitimation.
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Making Sense of IS Project Stories
A method of communicating and sharing ideas, experiences and knowledge in a specific context.
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Using Programmer Products iSpring in Educational Technologies
Is the conveying of events in words, and images, often by improvisation or embellishment.
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Heritage Storytelling
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Digital Storytelling in Teacher Education
The art of telling and relating real or fictitious events through the form of a story.
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The Use of ICT in Tourist and Educational Literary Routes: The Role of the Guide
In a literary route, a narrative established by the guide for the itinerary to share information, knowledge and experiences with the participants.
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Communicating and Building Destination Brands With New Media
It is about telling about a brand in a story. The central principle of creating good brand stories is to construct indices, such as locations, decisions, actions, attitudes, difficulties, decisions or conclusions. Indices in brand stories can arouse automatic awareness, comprehension and empathy among consumers.
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Promoting Tourism Destinations Through Storytelling
The social activity of sharing stories with an audience through various mediums. This activity is deeply rooted in human culture in many forms. Storytelling will aid in building and maintaining a good image for the destination.
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A Neuromarketing Based Approach on the Usage of Narratives in the Advertising
Describes the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment.
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Case Study of Branded Content in the Automotive Industry: Road Song Citroën DS3 With Singer Leiva
It is about telling a brand in a story. The central principle of creating good brand stories is to construct indices, such as locations, decisions, actions, attitudes, difficulties, decisions or conclusions.
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In Need for More Tailored Feminist Stories in a Time of Crisis
The social and cultural activity of creating and sharing stories. Today, it is re-considered as an important communication tool useful in many domains such as organizational leadership and branding.
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Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Enhancing Preservice Chemistry Teachers' Conceptual Understanding and Learning Strategies
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Branded Content and Disability: Opportunities for Contributing to SDGs
To tell a story that is associated with a brand or idea in order to convey its values.
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Towards an Innovative Ecotourism Business Model Framework
Describes the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment. Every culture has its own stories or narratives, which are shared as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation or instilling moral values.
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Students of Color and Anecdotal Pedagogy: A Success Story
Oral histories describing events of the past and personal accounts.
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Corporate Cults: Corporate Identity and Storytelling in the Context of Archetypal Symbolism
Storytelling is one of the most effective communication methods in telling the organizations themselves. Corporate stories are powerful and permanent narratives that express the corporate identity. In stories, perceptions are reshaped. The vision, mission, and values of the organization are narrated.
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Instagram as a Learning Space to Introduce Virtual Technology Tools Into Post-COVID Higher Education
The sharing of ideas and experiences through words and actions to communicate and create meaning about our lives and the lives of others ( Behmer, 2005 , p. 3).
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Learner-Centred Pedagogy Framing Authentic Identity and Positionality in Higher Education
The act of sharing a tale or a series of events, often in a trajectory that give perspective on context and culture.
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New Event Trends as a Tool of Digital Marketing Communication
The narration of time and space through words, images, and sounds.
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How to Foster Equality in the Language Classroom
The art of telling tales and a great tool to teach language incorporating culture.
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From Traditional to Transmedia: Transformation of the Narrative Strategies in the Product/Brand Placement
Storytelling emerges as a form of communication of the living collective world. The power of storytelling comes from the story which has been told, its repetition and transferred form by the different actors. Transferring or telling of words or an event get involves to life living the told and breathing with it. Storyteller reflects a life that he/she did not live, or gives someone an opportunity to live his/her story. Storytelling is maintained as a tradition by transferring from generations to generations, and it points to a horizon of meaning that is acted together because of common (collective) denominators.
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Storytelling in Intercultural Education
The art of narrating, an account or recital of an event or a series of events, either true or fictitious.
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How Branded Content is Strategically Transforming the Use of Traditional and Non-Traditional Media in Integrated Campaigns
the ability of an advertisement to tell a story associated with a brand to create engagement and an emotional bond with the target audience.
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Towards an African-Centered Model of Learning: Africanism
Designate a form of sharing knowledge or experience through narratives as part of learning exercise.
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Early Literacy Intervention Program: Closing the Linguistic Gap of Socially Disadvantaged Children
Is the art of conveying narratives through different means to enroll with an audience.
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The Resistance of Memories and the Story of Resistance: July 15 Coup Attempt and Social Movement in Turkey
Along with the emergence of new media tools, storytelling has become a universe expanding with faster and more narrative contribution. The story telling method, which is also shaped by today's new communication tools, is confronted with the concept of “trans-media storytelling.”
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Storytelling and Experience Design in Heritage Tourism
The practice and art of telling a story to an audience (called listener, reader, or viewer) deeply rooted in human cultures and taking many different forms (everyday life stories, myths, fables or other).
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Can Internal Social Media and Data Mining Be a Powerful Communication Vehicle in Reaching Employees in Change Management in Industry 4.0?
The interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener's imagination.
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Digital Storytelling in Language Classes
Narrating sequences of events in an artistic manner for a group of audience orally or in written words.
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Story Cubing Strategies: A Culturally Responsive Practice for Young Dual Language Learners
The act of communicating and connecting ideas from one’s cognitive domain to another, through a variety of modes, including: spoken words, actions, pictures, gestures, and writing. The terms “storytelling” and “narrative” are expressed as meaning the same thing.
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The Impact of Storytelling in Leadership
Evokes imagery, heightens emotions, challenges perceptions, and inspires people to act.
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Brand Narrative in the 21st Century
The art of connecting and communicating with people in your organization, including partners, suppliers, and employees, by employing stories
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Digital Transformations Carried Out Through Games
Storytelling refers to narrative settings, where employees share stories about the organisation with each other. These stories are often anecdotes about happenings and situations in the organisation and they often create emotional connections. Storytelling is considered to have a strong explanatory power and may therefore provide comfort in, for example, situations that are unknown.
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How Influencers Can Leverage Performance in Business
The interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener's imagination.
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Rubric to Determine a Quality Online Discussion Posting
Storytelling is a narrative or story that uses personal examples or narrative details.
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The Use of Storytelling to Promote Literacy Skills in Biology Education: An Intervention Proposal
Art of conveying events or phenomena in different formats, in order to entertain, inform, instruct, demonstrate, or persuade.
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Social Entrepreneurship and Its Competences: Implications for Higher Education
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Review and Evaluation of Systems Supporting Data Journalism
The social and cultural activity of sharing stories, with great application to journalism.
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Leveraging Learner Experience: Pedagogical Scaffolding With Refugee-Background Adults
The act and art of sharing elements of a story orally and visually through spoken words, gestures, and images while involving listeners by engaging their imagination and encouraging their participation.
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The Handmaid's Tale (2017) or Hulu's Major Investment in Great Storytelling
The action of recounting a story to connect with an audience through the message that is being transmitted.
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Organizational Learning: The Exploration of Work Culture
A person offering a personal anecdote, generally brief, entertaining, and involving the teller.
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Brand Storytelling in Christmas Commercials of Large Supermarket Chains: El Corte Inglés as a Case of Study
The brand tells a story in which its values are the protagonists, pursuing the identification of the public and stable links that go beyond the economic transaction.
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Chemistry Edutainment: A Storytelling Activity for Middle-School Children
The art of telling a story in such a way that it compels the audience, engaging with them through appeal to the emotional side. A good resource to use in science communication.
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The Analysis of Kobayashi's The Human Condition Trilogy by Referring to Arendt's Storytelling
In general, storytelling is the social activity of sharing stories. In Arendt, storytelling is telling oneself a story of an actual event from a plurality of perspectives ( Disch, 1993 ).
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Brands and Stories in Ads: The Relationship Between Storytelling and Brand Distinctiveness
A technique widely used in marketing and advertising, and which could be defined as the ability to transmit content and tell stories in a relevant way, capturing the user's attention effectively and persuasively.
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Making Sense of IS Project Stories
A method of communicating and sharing ideas, experiences and knowledge in a specific context.
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The Influence of Storytelling Strategies on Attitude and Purchase Intention
The way a story is told with the aim of creating impact or triggering an attitude, be it emotional, social, or behavioral.
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To Think Future of Journalism With Virtual Reality
The process whereby a storyteller conveys to others a witnessed event or an event told to him/her by someone else, using any communication tool, by also inserting his/her own experiences, feelings and thoughts.
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Product Placement With the Context of Character and Narrator
Storytelling is the vocalization of a text, in other words, of a story being in its basic state, conveying it to the audience with a narrative style and a pleasant audition for the audience.
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Evaluating the Use of Digital Cartography to Showcase the Intangible Heritage: The Case of Literary Tourism
Technique employed in the field of education to present a fact or experience by means of a real or fictitious story.
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Digital Storytelling in an EFL Class: A Digital Immigrant's Reflection and Digital Natives' Perceptions
The art of using language, vocalization, and/or physical movement and gesture to reveal the elements and images of a story to a specific, live audience” (NSA, 1997 AU61: The in-text citation "NSA, 1997" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , Cited in Tingoy et al., 2012 , p. 1).
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Making Sense of IS Failures
A method of communicating and sharing ideas, experiences and knowledge in a specific context.
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Experiential Marketing: A Tool to Maximize the Contribution of Natural History Museums to the Bioeconomy
A practice used by marketers to enhance meaningfulness and memorability of the customer experience using specific symbols, narratives, and communications.
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Audiovisual Storytelling Approaches in the Marketing of Luxury Clothing Brands
Art of telling stories. In marketing, it is used to connect the message with the users.
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