Telling & Sharing? Understanding Mobile Stories & the Future of Narratives: -

This paper discusses the current characteristics of mobile storytelling based on the study of three different frameworks for mobile storytelling and 166 sample stories. It discusses the characteristics of mobile storytelling and presents a brief framework of analysis. It then for each of the cases presents an analysis of how users elaborate on a given theme, the use of editing, the application of narrative conventions and reader/viewer responses. It concludes that people partake of conventional storytelling techniques, when specifically asked to tell stories. People rarely use text and focus on “mundane” content, that is selected for sharing post-facto. There is very little dialogic interaction between storytellers and readers. However, in general providing concrete frameworks or motivations for storytelling seem to encourage storytelling practices