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How Do We Know If We Have Transformed Narrative Oceans? | by Pop Culture Collaborative | Dec, 2023 | Medium
And the result is a new beta framework: INCITE — Inspiring Narrative Change Innovation through Tracking and Evaluation. This new learning and evaluation framework has been developed to equip the pop culture narrative change field — comprised of artists, values-aligned entertainment leaders and companies, movement leaders, cultural strategists, narrative researchers, philanthropic partners, and more — with a shared methodology to unearth learnings and track short and long-term impact, at both the individual and collective levels. This launch of the beta INCITE framework is the first step in a road testing process set to take place over 2024 to make it useful and usable by field members and funders alike.
Framing Equality Toolkit
This toolkit is a short guide to strategic communications, based on extensive research and building on the experience of activists and communicators from around the globe. It aims to provide a framework rather than a blueprint; helping you to ask the right questions rather than giving you the right answers. It’s designed to be helpful for anyone who communicates as part of their voluntary or paid work. It’s written with a focus on European LGBTI activists, but we hope it will be useful to others with a similar vision
Storytellers' Guide to Changing the World 2.0
plus Field Guide companion doc to this download on same page
UNHCR’s Project Unsung - UNHCR Innovation
The UN Refugee Agency’s Project Unsung is a speculative storytelling project that brings together creative collaborators from around the world to help reimagine the humanitarian sector and promote narrative change and foresight in our work. The worlds produced through mediums such as non-fiction essays, science fiction, poetry, art and illustration, create visions for how we might radically reimagine our work with communities, our organizations, and our relationships to each other and the planet. The collection is framed across three overarching issues that we believe to be critical for building just futures: Nature (restoring and repairing the world by confronting climate change and ecological loss); Identity (fostering belonging, connection, and kinship); Power (reimaging and reconfiguring power dynamics and social transformation through decolonizing, localizing, and building solidarity across difference). The story of humanitarian innovation needs a new chapter. Join us in imagining better worlds.
An Unexpected Victory: Container Stacking at the Port of Long Beach | Don't Worry About the Vase
Then our hero enters, and decides to coordinate and plan a persuasion campaign to get the rule changed. Here’s how I think this went down. He in advance arranges for various sources to give him a signal boost when the time comes, in various ways. He designs the message for a format that will have maximum reach and be maximally persuasive. This takes the form of an easy to tell physical story, that he pretends to have only discovered now. Since all actual public discourse now takes place on Twitter, it takes the form of a Twitter thread, which I will reproduce here in full.
The Features of Narratives: A Model of Narrative Form for Social Change Efforts | FrameWorks Institute
Op-Ed: Why storytelling is a necessary tool for social change - Los Angeles Times
New Brave World: The power, opportunities and potential of pop culture for social change in the UK – PopChange
Stories Matter: Entertainment Narratives about Health Mindsets and Policy
The Power of Story in a Fractured Society: Entertainment Media & Social Change | The Opportunity Agenda
2019 list of 50 Immersive Things that mix storytelling, performance, play, design & code
Heidi Boisvert: How I'm using biological data to tell better stories -- and spark social change | TED Talk
Explanation and the “How“ of a Narrative - Narrative Initiative
Released in March as part of FrameWorks Institute’s 20th anniversary, the Explanation Declaration asks communicators to help people understand the “how” behind issues and see that how as a critical part of engaging and empowering people to take action.
The Science of Belief: Move Beyond “Us” and “Them” to “We”
News media often frame refugees as a burden or threat to a community, where humanitarian stories often frame refugees as helpless people in a far-off land in need of help. Both narratives — while sympathetic — consistently situate refugees as outsiders. Our job as communicators is to shift the narrative from “us” and “them” to “we.”
Unsticking Stuck Mental Models: Adventures in Systems Change
New CMSI Study Reveals How Major TV Programs and Newspapers (Mis)Represented Homelessness and Housing Security Issues in 2018 - Center for Media and Social Impact
The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones - Scientific American Blog Network
Benioff and Weiss steer the narrative lane away from the sociological and shifted to the psychological. That’s the main, and often only, way Hollywood and most television writers tell stories. This is an important shift to dissect because whether we tell our stories primarily from a sociological or psychological point of view has great consequences for how we deal with our world and the problems we encounter.
Collective Wisdom · Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms
Why co-create and why now? Collective Wisdom is a first-of-its-kind field study of the media industry, that maps works that live outside the limits of singular authorship. While the concept of co-creation is entering the zeitgeist, it is an ancient and under-reported dynamic. Media co-creation has particular relevance in the face of today’s myriad of challenges, such as the climate crisis and threats to democracy. But it is not without risks and complications. In this study we look at how people co-create within communities; across disciplines; and increasingly, with living systems and artificial intelligence (AI). We also synthesize the risks, as well as the practical lessons from the field on how to co-create with an ethos grounded in principles of equity and justice. This qualitative study reframes how culture is produced, and is a first step in articulating contemporary co-creative practices and ethics. In doing so, it connects unusual dots.
A Guide to Hope-Based Communications | OpenGlobalRights
Also see author's org: https://www.hope-based.com/ 5 shifts: 1) Fear to hope 2) Against to for 3) Problem to solution 4) Threat to opportunity 5) Victims to heroes
Dropbox - Eva Stories Instagram materials
Instagram story of young Holocaust victim Eva aims at new generation | The Times of Israel
The State of SIE Report — Mapping the landscape of social impact entertainment
Social impact entertainment (SIE) is changing the world. Our landmark report explores this emerging field through the views and insight of the artists and industry experts who know it best.
Changing the Public Conversation on Social Problems: A Beginner's Guide to Strategic Frame Analysis™
Using Story to Change Systems
How to Tell Stories About Complex Issues
Maya Zuckerman - Collective Journey ebook (pdf)
10 Inspiring Resources to Ignite Social Change Storytelling | Michael Margolis | Pulse | LinkedIn
The Power of Empathy, Personal Narrative and More Lessons from the Story Movements Conference
Marshall Ganz on Making Social Movements Matter | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
VR Films Work Great for Charity. What About Changing Minds? | WIRED
The Power of We: Using Transmedia for Collective Activism | Pixel Wicked
Exploring how communities can benefit from restorative storytelling
Can live-action role-play games bring about social change?
Wide Angle Lens – Frameworks Academy
StoryPilot - Stories drive change. We show you how.
Transmedia for Change - Robert Pratten
MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE: THE HERO TOOLKIT (pdf) - Harry Potter Alliance
This toolkit provides resources for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to think more deeply about the social issues represented in the MCU and take action in our own world.
“Just Getting a Bunch of Likes, or Creating a Hashtag? That’s Not Social Change”: Impact Producer Lina Srivastava | Filmmaker Magazine
Setting a Cultural Stage for Social Impact | MIT – Docubase
How ‘Harry Potter’ fans won a four-year fight against child slavery - The Washington Post
Bringing the Future to Life: Pervasive Transmedia Scenarios and the World of Worlding
A technique is described for applying design processes associated with transmedia storytelling to the materialization of speculative future scenarios. How could this technique could be used to engage mass audiences in decision-making processes and experiences simulating different possible futures?
Use Stories to Build Communities That Can Be Harnessed to Act · Hatch
Project Models: Narrative Design for Social Change - Lina Srivastava
Transmedia: from Hollywood to Bogota, a voyage of transformation | ArtsHub Australia
Storytelling in Development : Lina Srivastava story sharing presentation
An Interactive Fight Against Gender-Based Violence: Priya's Shakti | Lina Srivastava
The Making of Priya’s Shakti- Innovative transmedia project that attempts to change attitude towards rape victims in India | factualforasia
Watch "What If? Transmedia for Change - TEDxTransmedia" Video at TEDxTalks
TFI Sandbox
Adventures in Storytelling, Technology and Social Change