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In the age of fake news and deep fake videos, how can documentary making be used for research and other purposes that demand authenticity and credibility?
Parents can help build children’s self-esteem by eliciting stories from them that position the child as the hero.
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Now, more than ever, we need to share stories that build relationships, community connections and self-esteem, especially with our children.
Members of South Africa’s Zip Zap Circus.
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An ongoing study shows that storytelling can positively increase self-awareness in young people, especially if they can relate to the stories. But in Africa access to story platforms is limited.
Ron Lamb installed solar panels to power his irrigation systems on the family farm near Claresholm, Alta.
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Talking about energy transitions could help overcome the impasse we seem to have reached on climate change.
one in four perpetrators are repeat offenders, yet less than 1% of perpetrators receive a specialist intervention to challenge or change their behaviour.
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Through choose-your-own-adventure stories, perpetrators of domestic abuse can challenge and understand their behaviour.
Bojack Horseman and Princess Caroline with her adopted hedgehog child.
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Since medieval times, animals have been used by storytellers to teach humans about themselves.
Reading and writing can prevent cognitive decline.
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As we get older, our eyesight may dim and our recall may falter. But our linguistic abilities don’t seem to erode.
China is projected to surpass the U.S. in box office receipts in 2020.
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Studios are starting to realize that diverse casts and diverse stories have a massive earning potential.
Stories are a helpful tool when teaching about gender-based violence.
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Sexual violence is a global phenomenon that’s been around for centuries.
Roz Hammond as Claudia in The Heights.
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Writing episodic TV, scriptwriters traditionally work from a principle of having three stories woven together through an episode. These are known as the A story, the B story and the C story.
Man Out of Time is an affecting portrait of a family rocked by the patriarchal figure’s long-term depression.
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Stephanie Bishop’s latest novel demonstrates a sophisticated approach to the relationship between time and narrative: novelists and aspiring writers would do well to look closely at her achievement.
Damian Callinan, Josh McConville, Nick Cody, Sahil Saluja, and Ben Knight in The Merger (2018).
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The Merger draws on the conventions of the sports film to explore and challenge attitudes towards refugees in Australia.
Leigh Sales at a memorial service of journalist Mark Colvin in 2017. In her recent book, Sales demonstrates the importance of journalistic empathy and disclosure.
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Part memoir, part investigation, Leigh Sales’s recent book Any Ordinary Day provides rare insight into the journalistic craft.
An illustration of Palorchestes azael, a marsupial tapir from the Pleistocene of Australia. There is evidence that this extinct species is depicted in rock art from the Kimberley.
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It is plausible to suppose that human memories of long-extinct creatures today underpin many stories we have generally regarded as fiction.
Mukuru, Nairobi.
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How theatre and artwork allowed us to better address severe air pollution.
Barry Jenkins’ ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ has been nominated for best adapted screenplay at the 91st Academy Awards.
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Numbers alone don’t relay the importance of people seeing their own experiences and lives mirrored in popular culture.
Reading alone is more likely to take you into the world of the story.
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How much you become engaged with a story is known as narrative transportation. And the more a story transports you, the more likely you are persuaded to adopt the beliefs espoused within it.
Turning over a new leaf.
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Dystopian fiction is popular, but presenting positive visions of the future in popular culture could help people embrace solutions.
Peter Rabbit.
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Later animations have told the tale of Peter Rabbit and friends, but none have reflected the power of the original.
Bahareh Jahandoost brings literature, performing arts and new media together to express Iranian society.
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A Canada-Iran collaboration uses performance art, storytelling and new media to confront the troubles of global migration and borders.