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There are 6 posts filed in Storytelling.

Interactive Empathy

Creating empathy online can be a difficult. The fact that a screen is talking to you rather than being in the presence of a flesh and blood human means that there is a lack of physicality in the conversation. The lack of physicality does not bring the certain level of connection we have come to […]

in Storytelling | April 30, 2012 | 400 Words | Comment

The Double-Edged Sword of Writing Online

Content creation on the internet has suffered from one perennial problem: how long should content be? Do the shorter attention spans of those wired-in reward shorter content? Websites like Cracked.com thrive on short bursts of content that users just eat up. When I was looking around Cracked, this article on the implications of Harry Potter […]

in Storytelling | April 11, 2012 | 441 Words | Comment

Geek’s Guide to Elon

When looking at schools, one would not see a traditional, Southern college as a bastion of geekery. Seersucker and bow ties do not equate to rolling a D20 to find a hidden door and the loot behind it. Surprisingly enough, Elon and the surrounding area has a stable geek culture that will more than satiate […]

in Storytelling | April 4, 2012 | 505 Words | Comment

Iconic Differences: Finding and Defining

It would be cliche of me to start out this blog post making some cheesy comment about how “pictures are worth a thousand words” so I will steer clear of that hackneyed turn of phrase. If anything, pictures are about emotions and what is happening both in and out of frame; what is happening in […]

in Storytelling | February 29, 2012 | 480 Words | Comment

No More Are the Mad Men

The Mad Men are dead. No longer do we have Don Drapers drinking fine scotch and wearing tailored suits while worrying about how best to market a department store. Ok, well, I may have lied a bit. More likely than not there are people still in fine suits drinking expensive liquids in cut glass. Though […]

in Storytelling | February 22, 2012 | 401 Words | Comment

Audio to Paint a Picture

Even though visuals are usually the most important part of an advertisement, many forget how important the audio can be. We forget that radio was the dominant advertising medium for those who couldn’t read or didn’t have time to read a newspaper. The written word can be powerful, but the spoken word is what puts […]

in Storytelling | February 15, 2012 | 486 Words | Comment

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