Publisher's Synopsis
Storytelling and Design: Media Literacy for the Digital Age addresses how new technology is impacting the age-old fields of storytelling and design. This book reaffirms the importance of design, narrative, and information architecture for building ideas. Its goal is to identify effective ways to communicate ideas through digital media. It is appropriate for high school or college-level courses in communication, media, and gaming, as well as other digital media.
Because writing and design are woven together on the Web, Storytelling and Design teaches some design principles, and includes and in-depth background history of both storytelling and design. In addition, it discusses some of the more diverse ideas connected with writing for the Web, such as what might be termed the poetry of digital writing, bringing in such diverse theories as alternate worlds, and the possible future of the written word and writing in general. It poses the question, Where might writing and designing for the Web be in a few decades? In the book, major designers and storytellers from the worlds of film, gaming, comic books, and graphic design give in-depth interviews on how storytelling and design have changed and are continuing to change. It explores, in detail, working within digital media as a storyteller and designer. "
