Story Tech
Personal stories have the power to stir the heart, compel us to act, and spark social change. While advocacy organizations have long used storytelling in campaigns, the role technology plays has increased. Today, invitations to “share your story” are widespread on advocacy organizations and politica...
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| author | Trevisan, Filippo Vaughan, Michael Vromen, Ariadne |
| author_browse | Trevisan, Filippo Vaughan, Michael Vromen, Ariadne |
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| description | Personal stories have the power to stir the heart, compel us to act, and spark social change. While advocacy organizations have long used storytelling in campaigns, the role technology plays has increased. Today, invitations to “share your story” are widespread on advocacy organizations and political campaign websites, calls to action, and social media pages. But what happens after one clicks “share”? And how does this affect which voices we hear—and which we don’t—in public discourse?
Story Tech explores the increasingly influential impact of technologies—such as databases, algorithms, and digital story banks—that are usually invisible to the public. It shows that hidden “story tech” enables political organizations to treat stories as data that can be queried for storylines and used to intervene in news and information cycles in real time. In particular, the authors review successful story-centered campaigns that helped change dominant narratives on disability rights, marriage equality, and essential workers’ rights in the United States and Australia. They compare the use of storytelling advocacy across different types of organizations including volunteer grassroots groups, large national advocacy coalitions, and trade unions, and examine how trends differ for storytellers, organizers, and their technology partners. As political stories shift to being “on demand,” they reshape power relationships in key public debates in ways that produce moments of tension as well as positive narrative change. Story Tech examines these trends and illustrates how storytelling success can—and should—be achieved in conjunction with personal dignity, privacy, and empowerment for storytellers and their communities, particularly marginalized ones. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1523452025-07-30T09:00:09Z Story Tech Trevisan, Filippo Vaughan, Michael Vromen, Ariadne storytelling, personal stories, technology, advocacy, activism, power, grassroots, social change, narrative change, political agency, crowdsourcing, datafication, algorithms, databases, collective action, connective action, social movements, trade unions, organized labor, disability rights, LGBTQI rights, essential workers thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement Personal stories have the power to stir the heart, compel us to act, and spark social change. While advocacy organizations have long used storytelling in campaigns, the role technology plays has increased. Today, invitations to “share your story” are widespread on advocacy organizations and political campaign websites, calls to action, and social media pages. But what happens after one clicks “share”? And how does this affect which voices we hear—and which we don’t—in public discourse? Story Tech explores the increasingly influential impact of technologies—such as databases, algorithms, and digital story banks—that are usually invisible to the public. It shows that hidden “story tech” enables political organizations to treat stories as data that can be queried for storylines and used to intervene in news and information cycles in real time. In particular, the authors review successful story-centered campaigns that helped change dominant narratives on disability rights, marriage equality, and essential workers’ rights in the United States and Australia. They compare the use of storytelling advocacy across different types of organizations including volunteer grassroots groups, large national advocacy coalitions, and trade unions, and examine how trends differ for storytellers, organizers, and their technology partners. As political stories shift to being “on demand,” they reshape power relationships in key public debates in ways that produce moments of tension as well as positive narrative change. Story Tech examines these trends and illustrates how storytelling success can—and should—be achieved in conjunction with personal dignity, privacy, and empowerment for storytellers and their communities, particularly marginalized ones. 2025-02-18T04:04:16Z 2025-02-18T04:04:16Z 2025-02-17T11:31:10Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98677 9780472077250 9780472057252 9780472222070 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/152345 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98677/1/9780472905690.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98677/1/9780472905690.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98677/1/9780472905690.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12067961 10.3998/mpub.12067961 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472077250 9780472057252 9780472222070 262 open access |
| spellingShingle | storytelling, personal stories, technology, advocacy, activism, power, grassroots, social change, narrative change, political agency, crowdsourcing, datafication, algorithms, databases, collective action, connective action, social movements, trade unions, organized labor, disability rights, LGBTQI rights, essential workers thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement Trevisan, Filippo Vaughan, Michael Vromen, Ariadne Story Tech |
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| topic | storytelling, personal stories, technology, advocacy, activism, power, grassroots, social change, narrative change, political agency, crowdsourcing, datafication, algorithms, databases, collective action, connective action, social movements, trade unions, organized labor, disability rights, LGBTQI rights, essential workers thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement |
| topic_facet | storytelling, personal stories, technology, advocacy, activism, power, grassroots, social change, narrative change, political agency, crowdsourcing, datafication, algorithms, databases, collective action, connective action, social movements, trade unions, organized labor, disability rights, LGBTQI rights, essential workers thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement |
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