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STORYTELLING

STORYTELLING. Jamie Hall j.hall.2@research.gla.ac.uk. Links and references. Caroline van den Brul (narrative skills workshops) www.creativitybydesign.co.uk Alice Bell (@ alicebell ) (science studies researcher and commentator) http://alicerosebell.wordpress.com

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STORYTELLING

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  1. STORYTELLING Jamie Hall j.hall.2@research.gla.ac.uk

  2. Links and references Caroline van den Brul(narrative skills workshops) www.creativitybydesign.co.uk Alice Bell (@alicebell) (science studies researcher and commentator) http://alicerosebell.wordpress.com Ed Yong (@edyong209) (popular science blogger) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience John Bohannon: Dance vs. Powerpoint (I should have listened!) http://www.ted.com/talks/john_bohannon_dance_vs_powerpoint_a_modest_proposal.html This American Life (great storytelling about everyday life) http://www.thisamericanlife.org Planet Money (business and economics news and stories, entertaining and informative) http://www.npr.org/blogs/money Radiolab (great storytelling about science and society) http://www.radiolab.org/ Me: j.hall.2@research.gla.ac.uk and my Parasites comic is here: http://wellcometrust.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/of-parasitology-and-comics/

  3. Advocacy? Education? Recruitment? Entertainment? Translation? Public engagement with science is… Evangelism? Social duty? Brainwashing? Pitching? PR? Storytelling? Training?

  4. scientists? scientific ‘method’? children? your discipline? adults? Public engagement science with academics? your PhD? “understanding of”? government? your university? businesspeople? all science?

  5. “Communication is something you take part in, not something you deliver.” Dr. Alice Bell alicerosebell.wordpress.com

  6. does it affect things that are important to you? did it happen in your city? is it about the parasite you work on? CONNECTIVITY wrongs must be righted! are you in the same world? something that doesn’t fit something new, unknown, unexpected STRANGENESS a tension that must be resolved COMPREHENSIBILITY the story must make logical sense, it must be believable

  7. a lure What makes you start engaging with a story? – title, cover… the audience Where do they lie on this strangeness-connectivity axis? Will they find the characters’ behaviour, or the outcomes, believable? the world does the audience care about the world and the characters in it? mood, setting, look/feel, detail & description will the audience recognize strangeness in the world? something that doesn’t fit a wrong that must be righted a hook

  8. the plot character desiring a goal hurdles and obstacles interesting and surprising ways of dealing with them structure series of events that arouse emotion and maintain interest concern for character mystery (concern for outcome) suspense (concern for character and outcome)

  9. Ed Yong, blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience

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