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.
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Talking about energy transitions could help overcome the impasse we seem to have reached on climate change.
Through choose-your-own-adventure stories, perpetrators of domestic abuse can challenge and understand their behaviour.
Since medieval times, animals have been used by storytellers to teach humans about themselves.
As we get older, our eyesight may dim and our recall may falter. But our linguistic abilities don’t seem to erode.
Studios are starting to realize that diverse casts and diverse stories have a massive earning potential.
Sexual violence is a global phenomenon that’s been around for centuries.
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.
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.
The Merger draws on the conventions of the sports film to explore and challenge attitudes towards refugees in Australia.
Part memoir, part investigation, Leigh Sales’s recent book Any Ordinary Day provides rare insight into the journalistic craft.
It is plausible to suppose that human memories of long-extinct creatures today underpin many stories we have generally regarded as fiction.
How theatre and artwork allowed us to better address severe air pollution.
Numbers alone don’t relay the importance of people seeing their own experiences and lives mirrored in popular culture.
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.
Dystopian fiction is popular, but presenting positive visions of the future in popular culture could help people embrace solutions.
Later animations have told the tale of Peter Rabbit and friends, but none have reflected the power of the original.
A Canada-Iran collaboration uses performance art, storytelling and new media to confront the troubles of global migration and borders.
Long a repressed language, the Scots tongue is experiencing a cultural resurgence thanks to popular drama and storytelling.
We’ve never needed Oculus Rift to provide immersive experiences – they’ve been around for as long as we have.
Top contributors
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Dean of Research (Creative), University of South Australia
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Professor of Language and Literacy Education, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Narratology, University of Sydney
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Professor of Sustainable Practice, University of Southampton
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Senior Lecturer in Film & Media Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Senior lecturer, Australian National University
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Associate Professor and Head of School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Education; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Professor, University of Stavanger
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Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
