Transformative storytelling for social change. The highest standards of ethics are necessary for research and practice with creative storytelling methods.
Ongoing examination of ethical processes should occur throughout the process. Informed consent As an ethical practitioner it is very important that you take this issue extremely seriously. It is particularly important now with the number of people with access to the internet and social media sites. Storytellers must have the ability to make informed choices about workshop participation and the content, production, and use of their work. It’s recommended that you give participants the consent form to consider at the beginning of the workshop, and then collect them on the last day of the workshop. Download DST release form: Example consent form for sharing digital stories Sharing the stories In terms of ethical practice it is critical that the storytellers have ownership of the stories that they produce.
Mitigation of Harm Right of Withdrawal Links: Center for Story-based Strategy. How Twitter Is Reshaping The Future Of Storytelling. Every five days, a billion tiny stories are generated by people around the world.
Those messages aren’t just being lost in the ether, like the imaginary output of monkeys randomly attempting to produce the works of Shakespeare. Instead, the tweets are being archived by the Library of Congress as part of the organization’s mission to tell the story of America. The archive now includes 170 billion posts and counting. The patterns of human life will be stored in this Twitter archive like a form of digital sediment. Every meme and revelation will leave an imprint in the record constructed of posts by half a billion Twitter users around the world (and over 150,000 more signing up every day). How has the future of storytelling been influenced by Twitter?
Sparking the Imagination Writer and actor John Hodgman recalls how derisive many people were about Twitter when it first entered the public consciousness. A Future Biography Prolific novelist Joyce Carol Oates recently tweeted: In search of what each of us can do for the planet. Www.wholecommunities.org/pdf/Public Story Worksheet07Ganz.pdf. Marshall Ganz: Why Stories Matter. Marshall Ganz is a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
He played an instrumental, and largely anonymous, role in shaping Barack Obama’s recent campaign. Most importantly, Dr. Ganz has served as mentor to my daughter (and Friends of Justice board member) Lydia Bean. This understanding of story has helped Friends of Justice understand the power of our narrative strategy. I don’t have to tell you anything more because Marshall Ganz begins with his own story.
By Marshall Ganz I grew up in Bakersfield, California, where my father was a rabbi and my mother was a teacher. I got my real education, however, when I left Harvard to work in the civil rights movement in Mississippi. I also was raised on years of Passover Seders. I went to Mississippi because it was a movement of young people, and there’s something very particular about young people, not just that they have time. How do organizers master urgency to break through inertia?
Hope is not only audacious, it is substantial.