SXSW 2012 - The Distributed Stream: True Web-Native Storytelling

The Distributed Stream: True Web-Native Storytelling
Event	Interactive 2010
Format	Solo
Organizer	Brad King – Ball State University
Description	Emerging technologies and social networks have changed how we create and interact with stories. The Web-native distributed story has three components: data, information and presentation working equally through the construction process. Modern news organizations (and individuals) can now access large networks of people, delivering related information into the data stream. The first two-way, many-to-many broadcast.
Questions Answered	What is a story (and how is it different than a distributed story)? How have games influenced the development of stories in the digital world? What is the difference between an interactive and distributed story? How are data, information and presentation different? How do we maintain "editorial control" over distributed stories? What kinds of tools are necessary to engage in distributed storytelling? How does this change the relationship between news organizations and netizens? How do you archive and make searchable a distributed story How does a distributed story change the way we create news? What would a modern distributed news storytelling organization look like?
Level	Intermediate
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