Category Archives: Online Storytelling

Immersive Online Storytelling – The Next Frontier of Emotional Attachment?

By Kfir Pravda | Published: April 8, 2009
Did you ever read someone’s Facebook status messages and learned about his personal stories through it? Did you ever read personal blogs and vlogs and felt that you are witnessing a real life story? Last semester I lectured in a course in IDC about online storytelling, together with Noa Morag and Roni Abolafia. I wrote [...]
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Video, Media Mix, and Emotions

By Kfir Pravda | Published: March 16, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Video is more efficient in creating emotional attachment than text – if done right. I saw this effect in a course in IDC Media School about online storytelling, which I (along with two amazingly talented lecturers, Noa Morag and Roni Abolafya) delivered last semester. In the course, the students wrote dramatic stories, [...]
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Challenges of Online Storytelling – Character

By Kfir Pravda | Published: December 2, 2008
Image via Wikipedia Creating an online character is a complex task, especially when it is fictional. However, creating one is crucial for online storytelling, the art of telling stories over the internet. I am teaching at the Interdisciplinary Center a course about online storytelling and here are some of the challenges in this field: Story [...]
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Three Missing Links In Making Internet Video Mainstream Entertainment

By Kfir Pravda | Published: December 22, 2007
As the year ends, here are the three most important developments that can change the online video market as we know it: 1. Content Discovery – as new blood and creative people are getting into the online video market, users are overwhelmed by the amount of unknown content out there. Technologies today do not provide [...]
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Online Storytelling, Justification, And What The Godfather Has To Do With It

By Kfir Pravda | Published: December 4, 2007
This is the first in a series of posts where we will try to discover and define the art of online storytelling. The aim of these posts is to create a conversation, and as such, they will be posted in Facebook and relevant mailing lists. All posts will be tagged with “online storytelling” – I’d [...]
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