Hyperlinks and Story Arcs: Building Non-Linear Narratives Online

What does it mean to build a non-linear story in the 21st century? Our storytelling tools are increasingly fragmented in the digital world but, at the same time, the web is opening up all sorts of exciting possibilities. The digital tools at our fingertips, from simple hyperlinks to complex animations, mean we can create non-linear narratives that exist as the perfect storytelling format for the web.

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1. Hyperlinks & Story Arcs Building Non-Linear Narratives Online
2. Hello. Senongo Akpem @senongo
3. nairaland.com/naptu2 Kwagh-hir
4. Pixel Fable pixelfable.com
5. So... How do we tell non-linear stories?
6. Start with narrative content blocks
7. ernestgoh.com wat.
8. narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data
9. narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data
10. narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data
11. narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data
12. narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data
13. narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data
14. narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data
15. narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data
16. Organizing your narrative content
17. wikipedia.org Go deeper.
18. fluid content strategy is critical for non-linear narratives
19. Create experiences that are not just hierarchical or linear, but flexible, modular, relational, and semantic. -Sara Wachter-Boettcher
20. Set narrative goals
21. Create narrative schedules
22. Conductrr tstoryteller.com
23. non-linear narratives depend heavily on your audience
24. One of the challenges facing designers of intelligent storytelling systems is how to balance tension between user and author control. -Joshua Tanenbaum & Angela Tomizu
25. discovery feedback ‘what is’ vs ‘what if’
26. Hi hi.co
27. discovery feedback ‘what is’ vs ‘what if’
28. Death is Certain dice.gwil.co
29. discovery feedback ‘what is’ vs ‘what if’
30. Designing cohesive narratives
31. Create threads.
32. visual threads interactive threads spatial threads
33. Whale Hunt thewhalehunt.org
34. visual threads interactive threads spatial threads
35. #MurderProject unlinear.tv
37. visual threads interactive threads spatial threads
38. Voices From The Collosseum colosseum.bridgingmedia.net
39. Knowledge... can now be accessed through a network of links in which a spatial relation between component parts can be preserved. -person -Janet Marles
40. create one central thread through your narrative
41. A few examples.
43. extra narrative
45. An Idea Lives On anidealiveson.org
47. disjointed narrative
50. Life After Wartime - Bystander lifeafterwartime.com
51. parallel narrative
53. Moon unahistoriaquedalavuelta.com/en
55. database narrative
57. Inequality Map newyorker.com/sandbox/business/subway.html
58. micro narrative
61. Lost Nigeria lostnigeria.com
62. This is my call for more non-linear storytelling.
63. Transmedia storytelling is the ideal aesthetic form for an era of collective intelligence. -Henry Jenkins
64. Thank You! @senongo (slides, tools, and more at senongo.net)
65. fin.