Web 2.0 storytelling
Web 2.0 storytelling emerged with the material and its now huge size and full diversity. Its led a big explosion of the user-generated content. Social media has evolved in high-speed. By now some platforms would be replaced or even outmoded. “Link rot” has been an issue since the beginning of the web, it means that servers and other resources have been permanently unavailable. The internet archives machine way back also is known for one of the best resources to check for backup copies of web-based content.
Blogs
The well-known and most visible and accessible form of web 2.0 storytelling. It is also known to be the oldest social media platforms. It has a similarity with diaries and is associated with it. Blogs have persisted in the last decade in social media. Here are examples of blogs; personal blogs, group blogs, internet blogs, public blogs, and more. With the historical history, they do not consider it to be single, diaries and blogs are basically the same thing. It’s a public diary like social media when you can leave comments, suggestions, criticisms, And more. The first ever post in a blog was narrating a lady traveling around the world.
Temporally structured archival blogging that involves some pre digital content that was published in chronologically marked forms like the epistolary novel, for example letters identified by date and also diaries, newspaper, audio recordings, and more. You can get a different feeling viewing and reading history or present events, but viewing it by date and day by day.
Character blogging, going back to blogging and diaries. Bloggers are characters in which each blogger can demonstrate persona in whatever degree of fiction. Those personalities are shown over time in digital storytelling. Blogs can tell stories about each character in blogs either its fiction or nonfiction. “One-post stories” is related to character blogging. It means that it’s a version of short-short stories which are taking place on a single self-contained blog post. These blogs can also include images, texts, and other media just like other blogs.
It appears that the least storytelling platform out of any other is Twitter. You can say it has long stories short. With the large size of diversity and users of contents Twitter is a site for conversations narratives and meanings. In ways users use twitter the specific language used for twitter are tweeting, tweet, or twitter itself. Twitter has a lot of different story telling it can be in the present like some tweets about what is happening in a current event like for example “feels good to be back at UMW” users and blogs also use hashtags in twitter which people use for storytelling about the same thing like another example can be #UMW and every user can keep up and see what other “tweet” about UMW.
Wikis
The first appearance of Wikis was in the mid 1990’s by the creator Ward Cunningham. It’s a storytelling web application to help users to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with other users. For example, if i use it and read what others have put i can modify or delete what they have put down on wikis. Wikis can be a blog or a content created without a defined owner or leader. It can be public or private, to users. Also google supports wikis services. Wikipedia is the most popular wiki on the public web. There are also other sites running with different kinds of wiki software. The Hawaiian word “wiki” stands for quick. This is the simplest online database that could possibly work on the web.
Social images
Social images are a visual field of power of images that influences viewers and readers. This is images that have information, mood sharing, and to persuade the viewers. Images do indeed play a key role in multimedia since the cave paintings were found. Images can also turn into video content as well do audio tracks. Flickr is now leading the social media for imagery. Flickr is a five-image story telling for example the first image would be a student packing up for college, second would be driving to college, 3rd would be arriving at college, forth would be in the dorm, and last fifth would be in class working.
Facebook, the worlds largest social media platform. This social network has more than 500 million users and counting. Facebook has different storytelling like images, video, text, information, and more. It has a mixture of storytelling for example Flickr and Twitter. Blogging is different in each user account or site. This social media can also be private or public. Facebook has many ways to read and write with other users. It has posts, an archive, search box, comments, listings, events, discussions, and information.
Does the Scenes from the Wire and Facebook’s The Wire constitute digital storytelling?
Facebook’s The Wire does constitute digital storytelling. It basically has everything that Bryan Alexanders talked about in his blog Web 2.0 Storytelling. Facebook’s blog page of The Wire involves all public access for users that have watched the show The Wire. It has text, posts, pictures, videos, and other information in the blog. It involves storytelling and you can leave comments, questions, concerns, and also have conversations about The Wire.
As for the Scenes from The Wire it does not constitute digital storytelling unlike Facebook’s The Wire, It has videos and a picture of the a show, but does not have storytelling an as a viewer you cannot comment, or have conversations and it does not have enough information about the show to be digital storytelling.
