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Storyteller Uprising

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Author: Hanson Hosein

  • Now on Kindle

    As I mentioned earlier. I’m exploring how I can produce Storyteller Uprising as an enhanced e-book (I even put that question out on Quora).  It’d be pretty non-disruptive otherwise to distribute a book about the “uprising” of non-institutional content creators on an established press, wouldn’t it? In the meantime, I’ve got a number of high…

  • Wallflowers of the uprising

    Frank Rich’s Wallflowers at the Revolution in this weekend’s New York Times resonates deeply.  It hits me both as an observer on the impact of social media platforms on such uprisings, as well as as former television news reporter in the Middle East. The live feed from Egypt is riveting. We can’t get enough of…

  • A new model for storytelling: transmedia

    Terrific insights on Media Space TV from transmedia storytelling (a.k.a. “multiplatform storytelling”) guru Brent Friedman, the importance of gaming, and how the Pacific Northwest has the right technological infrastructure to support this form of narrative. Also watch the Four Peaks salon that followed on net neutrality here.

  • Video wars, information warfare

    Call it my inability to abandon my breaking news background as a former TV journalist.  But I’m enamored with the notion of a “news peg” to galvanize attention around a particular issue. Our MCDM program did it with Wikileaks in December with “Open Secrets” and the news gods have smiled upon us again, ahead of…