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Stories and Storytelling

From Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
Stories are narratives people tell about experiences, events, personal or collective memories, or aspects of individual biographies. They may be shared orally, through the written word, or through other modes of communication. Storytelling is the practice of sharing narratives with self, others, or with researchers. From a theoretical perspective, storytelling is often explained as something that individuals use to create meaning in their own lives. From this perspective stories and storytelling are communication tools used to organize and interpret collective and individual phenomena as well as to make sense of personal and shared experiences and to experience dialogue. Scholars gather stories as empirical data to meet a large variety of research needs. Data collection may involve gathering original stories told only to the researcher, stories that are widely known and commonly shared orally across generations within a community, stories that are published in different media, or even…
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Full text Article storytelling

From The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
The term preferred by its practitioners for the art and practice of the oral narration of stories. Universal to cultures of every era, it has come under threat in modern life. Since the early 1980s, however, major revivals have taken place in countries from Denmark to New Zealand, Ireland to…
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Full text Article storytelling and fairy tales

From The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
Fairy stories occupy an important place in storytelling. Anne Pellowski's 1977 survey revealed the existence of the activity in every part of the inhabited world. In the past, storytelling required an apprenticeship in some places, and in others it was passed down by families of storytellers from…
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Full text Article Storytelling Festival, National

From Cultural Studies: Holidays Around the World
A three-day festival in Jonesborough, TN, the National Storytelling Festival was started in 1973 to revive the ancient folk art of storytelling. The popularity of storytelling seemed to be dying, replaced by radio, television, and movies. The first festival was the idea of Jimmy Neil Smith, a…
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Full text Article Storytelling and Narrative Research

From SAGE Key Concepts series: Key Concepts in Organization Theory
Storytelling and narrative research: the study of organizations as storytelling systems, where organizations are seen to be contexts in which stories and narratives are performed as a means of making sense and creating or enacting organization culture ORIGINS What do we mean by storytelling and…
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Storytelling for Entrepreneurial Endeavour
Ideas for Leaders #324 Authors Lefsrud, Lianne M. Jennings, P. Devereaux Institutions University of Michigan Ross School of Business University of Alberta School of Business Source Ross School of Business Paper Idea conceived November 2013 Key Concept Good stories can increase legitimacy and…
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Full text Article Black Storytelling Festival and Conference, National

From Cultural Studies: Holidays Around the World
The National Association of Black Storytellers meets annually in November for its National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference. The event, open to both performers and listeners, features workshops and performances by a diverse range of storytellers, including those who dance, play…
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Machines are taking their first steps into the world of art – learning how to tell stories, compose music and paint pictures by themselves. We would not hesitate to call these activities creative when done by a human. Will we ever be comfortable saying the same of a machine? What if there were a…
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Communicated Sense-Making
How do we come to know a family? How do we know its culture, the ways in which family members cope with stress, their values, their likes, their dislikes, their quirks? How do we know what it means to be a member of our own families? How do we introduce friends or socialize partners into our family…
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Full text Article A simple way to promote HPV vaccination among Asian American women: Storytelling (Mar. 2020)

From The Conversation: An Independent Source of Analysis from Academic Researchers
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders – what demographers call AAPIs – are the nation’s fastest-growing minority. Close to 20 million now live in the U.S. But you wouldn’t know it from our public health data, where AAPIs are underrepresented. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the data on…
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Full text Article Storytelling

From Palgrave Key Concepts: Key Concepts in Business and Management Research Methods
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