{"280181":{"#nid":"280181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Madej Delivers Talk at Woodbury University on February 24","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs\u0026nbsp;media has developed and changed, conventions of narrative content and format have kept pace, underlining\u0026nbsp;that narrative is not isolated but is intrinsic to the cultural landscape as it is shaped by and shapes emerging technologies. Madej\u0027s talk presents\u0026nbsp;narrative as material culture. It begins with what is perhaps the oldest written story on earth,\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEpic of Gilgamesh,\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp; looks at\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;the evolution of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EEgyptian hieroglyphics and compares them to today\u0027s websites and the evolution of computer communciation. A quick run through Athenian vase narratives, medieval church friezes, renaissance puppetry plays, baroque operas, and modern film, brings the talk to today\u0027s interactive digital stories\u003Cem\u003E. The talk concludes with\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;a narrative project from an advanced narrative class at Vancouver\u0027s Center for Digital Media in which students used social media to construct a hypermedia sequel to the Romeo and Juliet story.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"\u0022Narrative as Material Culture\u0022"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMadej was invited by Newton Lee, her collaborator on a book on Disney, \u003Cem\u003EDisney Stories: Getting to Digital\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Lee, who teaches Game Design at Woodbury, runs the series and invited Madej.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Her talk was part of the Technology Lecture Series"}],"uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2014-03-03 17:24:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:58","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-03-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"280171":{"id":"280171","type":"image","title":"Krystina Madej","body":null,"created":"1449244184","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:44","changed":"1475894973","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:33","alt":"Krystina Madej","file":{"fid":"198902","name":"madej_at_woodbury.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madej_at_woodbury_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madej_at_woodbury_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":78255,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/madej_at_woodbury_0.jpg?itok=VTKGxW5a"}}},"media_ids":["280171"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"88001","name":"hypermedia"},{"id":"4591","name":"narrative"},{"id":"167543","name":"social media"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:krystina.madej@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekrystina.madej@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}