From Storytelling to Storymaking to Create Academic Contents. Creative Industries Through the Perspective of Students

• Autores: Gloria Gómez Diago
• Localización: Storytelling and Education in the Digital Age Experiences and Criticisms / Matteo Stocchetti (ed. lit.), 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-67544-1
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The new technologies and specially the possibilities offered by the internet, multiply the capabilities to write and to tell stories, to create them collectively, to redesign them, to cite them, to amplify them, to link them, to comment them, et cetera. Having available a multitude of resources not only for being storytellers but for accessing to diverse information and contents, changes the possibilities and conditions in which storytelling is generated in comparison with before internet and prompts us to focus on the importance of storymaking abilities in the classroom. In a context where storytelling can be performed without spatial or temporal constraints and where algorithms like Narrative Science’s natural language generation programme1 can write original stories by drawing down content from big data sources, the act of writing and of sharing ideas by using words is still essential to participate in the construction of our societies. Written communication is especially important in academic contexts because it is through texts that contents are created. Aimed to improve the abilities and skills of pupils to generate contents, we designed and applied an experience which consisted of using storymaking as a context for learning, by giving students of the last year of the Advertising and Public Relations Degree at the University of Vigo a role in the building of the contents delivered in the course “Advertising and Cultural Industries”. Students co-created a collective book named Cultural/Creative Industries in an Environment in which the Physical and the Virtual Merge (2016).

    2 During the four months