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Small Scales and Large Impacts: an interactive story

In this post, Samuel Pegg – a finalist English student and one of our interns at Southampton Digital Humanities – describes the rationale behind “Small Scales and Large Impacts”, an interative story created during his internship. Small Scales and Large Impacts (known as Small Scales from this point on) is an interactive storytelling experience – published at https://biglittleinteractive.itch. Continue reading →

TNS Workshop 6th July

The Centre for Transnational Studies is pleased to announce their upcoming workshop. Moving Stories: Exploring Transcultural Storytelling in Contexts of Migration When: 10:00 – 17:00, 6 July 2017 Where: Building 27 (side entrance) Room 1133, Highfield Campus Speakers: Divya Tolia-Kelly, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Durham. Annika Lems, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bern. Umut Erel, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University. Continue reading →

Plot, Character and Genre

I am across an interesting article the other day which, I fear, has little to do with my thesis, but I was captivated and intrigued by it. It recorded and experiment exploring storytelling genres, run by sociologists. So, why are sociologists looking at story? Well, I’ll let them explain: Preachers, advertising executives and politicians have long attested to the power of a good story to change people’s minds. Communication scholars recently have shown why. Continue reading →

Bluetooth LE again

An opportunity may be coming up that has been thinking again about heritage spaces and narrative. This year’s Museums and Heritage Show was full of companies offering Bluetooth LE (BLE, or if you prefer, Apple’s trademarked version, iBeacons) interpretation. Most worked along the lines of “approach object/artwork with your device (phone or tablet), and a BLE beacon will tell your device where it is, whereupon it will serve up interesting tidbits of information. Continue reading →

The best exhibition of the Summer

I’ve been wanting to write this post for a couple of weeks. Since Father’s Day in fact, when my family took me to the British Library as a treat.  But the Portus MOOC was such hard work, and the Lego modelling so compelling, that everything else was put on hold. It’s not too late to recommend this exhibition though, which is a “must see“, even if you don’t think you are that interested in Comics. Yes, comics. Continue reading →

Proximity!

My Gimbal beacons arrived yesterday. These are three tiny Bluetooth LE devices, not much bigger than the watch battery that powers them. They do very little more than send out a little radio signal that says “I’m me!” twice a second. There are three very different ways of using them that I can immediately think of: I’ve just tried leaving one in in each of three different rooms, then walking around the house with the the simple Gimbal manager app on my iPhone. Continue reading →

Story, Time and Place

This is the Prezi and below are my notes in preparation for a short presentation I gave to a Digital Humanities seminar group at University today. Hosted WordPress still can’t deal with embedded Prezi’s yet so click the link at the start to see the slides. And my notes below are just notes, so you’ll have to imagine me riffing off them to make an entertaining, compelling and coherent (I hope!)  presentation. Continue reading →