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Jack Ricchiuto is a nationally acclaimed designer and author of 9 books. His website is DesigningLife.com
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Tellability
Had a great conversation with Dr. Ruth Page, researcher and lecturer at the University in Birmingham (UK). She's doing exciting and groundbreaking work on among other things the gender comparisons of people interacting on Facebook and other Web 2.0 media. She keeps up a blog, Digital Narratives, where you can learn more on her work that she approaches from a linguistics perspective. She was introduced to me by a researcher and lecturer (more on David later) I found at Ohio State when I was searching on my new book title, narrative nexus.
As I suspected, narratologists have developed a boatload of fabulous distinctions that make the power of narrative more accessible. Tellability, for example, is the level of engagement of the listener, shaped by how stories are constructed in their making and co-constructed in their telling and listening. The research suggests that stories with higher levels of tellability elicit and support more quality connections between and among people in all modalities of interaction. This is a great source of optimism for the importance of everyone growing their capacity for rich narratives that, for example, are stories that go on for minutes or hours not seconds or nanoseconds. Thanks Ruth.
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