MODULE 1: WHAT IS SUSTELLING?

 

WHAT IS THE POTENTIAL OF SUSTELLING?

  • Narratives are better understood than non-narratives. [1],[2]
  • Narratives allow complex relationships to be made more vivid and understandable. [3]
  • Narratives can present moral conflicts in detail. [4]
  • Narratives are suitable for presenting everyday experiences from other lives in order to make them real for the audience. [5]

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[1] See Kintsch, W. (1980). Learning from text, levels of comprehension, or: Why anyone would read a story anyway. Poetics, 9(1-3), 87-98. doi: 10.1016/0304-422X(80)90013-3.

[2] See Johnson-Laird, P. N. (1983). Mental models: Towards a cognitive science of language, inference, and consciousness (No. 6). Harvard University Press.

[3] See Vervoort, J. M. et al. (2014). A sense of change: media designers and artists communicating about complexity in social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society, 19(3). DOI: 10.5751/ES-06613-190310

[4] See Graesser, A. C., Olde, B., & Klettke, B.. (2002). How does the mind construct and represent stories. Narrative impact: Social and Cognitive Foundations, 229-262.

[5] See O’Connell, K., Keys, B., & Storksdieck, M. (2018). Getting to know guerrilla science participants: evaluating unexpected and unusual science encounters. Technical Report. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University, Retrieved from: https://stem.oregonstate.edu/sites/stem.oregonstate.edu/files/Guerilla-Science-Final.pdf

What’s next?

You will learn about the possible disadvantages of storytelling in the next section.

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